Type designer Erik Spiekermann in a recent interview talks about the challenge of designing numbers... as if letters would be much easier. "Anybody can design letters, but numbers are hard. Tech was an interesting challenge that I gave myself: to create a typeface that has no diagonals. When you design numbers, you have to do ABC at least. It's interesting because I realized that what worked for ... Read full entry
I like your numbers better than your letters
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 24 July, 2008 to the design and art subset
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