And since LeMonde was mentioned… most of Porchez Typofonderie’s work is really amazing….maybe we get to see a post soon related to some of their work ? :) Costa for example is gorgeous…

However, since I am firmly in the category of iLT readers called New To Typography (why not categorize ourselves as well? hah), I take it very slow and read the articles over several times, especially the ones on type classification. I like to take the fonts you (John) give us as examples, and look them up (at MyFonts) to see if I can find the nuances. Very awesome way to procrastinate … oh, and learn.

However, this time I had trouble identifying the font (out of the four) that is Old Style, because I didn’t realize that Old Style fonts, while having a more upright stress, still do not have a completely upright stress. John, you write,

“Another major change can be seen in the stress of the letterforms (figure 1.2) to a more perpendicular (upright) position…”

Which, to me, was a bit vague, I suppose.

Now, I don’t want to come off that I’m criticizing! I’m not blaming anyone, just saying what my silly mistake was, in case anyone else learns from it, or might have felt the same. I found that having Robin Williams’ book “The Non-Designer’s Type Book” open to page 22 (Oldstyle) helped too, because that’s one of her identifying characteristics (the still-diagonal stress).

So, I guess I would also be one of those people asking for a solutions page!

Now enough about stress! I hope you’re not too stressed on your trip, John, and that the rest of you aren’t too stressed either. And, of course, I’m looking forward to whatever iLT has to say next.