![]() More recently the OpenType Variable standard debuted and now Variable Fonts are growing in popularity. The OpenType format allows for much larger character sets. The OpenType format was a brand new thing when Clearview (which used older TrueType) was released. The typeface had been in development for years prior to that.Ī lot has happened with type technology in the past 17 years. Here is a bigger issue: the Highway Gothic vs Clearview Battle is 17 years old -and that's just going from when Clearview Highway earned interim approval. A few other type designers have done the same thing. ![]() But then Frere-Jones put Interstate back into the Adobe Fonts service via his own independent type foundry. Just recently Font Bureau ended their short relationship with the Adobe Fonts service for Creative Cloud, pulling popular type families such as Interstate. They didn't really get into how Frere-Jones cleaned up many of the letter forms in the Interstate type family he first designed thru Font Bureau. Frere-Jones pointed out a lot of the blunt quirks of "Highway Gothic" (aka Series Gothic). IMHO, Gotham was the first highly successful typeface of the 21st century.īut there were other things they left out of the article. He is a bona fide expert on typography and one of the more talented type designers working today. I like it that they interviewed Tobias Frere-Jones for the docu-short. ![]() Quote from: Bobby5280 on May 05, 2021, 01:14:36 AM The Vox video on the two highway typefaces was interesting.
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