Eye Magazine

Before publishing his first book, the eighteenth-century printer John Baskerville spent more than seven years developing his type, ink and paper. Now that technology allows graphic designers to produce decent-looking typefaces in a fraction of the time, many professional type designers are returning to the meticulousness of the old masters, and creating fewer typefaces – but with greater care for the details. This can manifest itself in many ways: extended character sets with multilingual versions and contextual alternatives, or in typeface families that are extended to cover a multitude of uses and contexts . . .