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Letter drawing for Galileo typeface designed for Scientific American magazine, 1985.  

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Yue Wang interviews Chuck Bigelow for TUGboat, available as PDF HERE. Here's an excerpt -  "Digital design tools and rendering enable greater precision and regularity in type forms, but the risk is that the designs look boring — too regulated, too repetitive, too rigid, too homogenized. Randomly adding irregularity doesn’t improve the appearance — the designs then look boring but awkward. Some graphic and interface designers want neutrality in typography, but I don’t believe that any type design is truly neutral. Every typeface carries some degree of expressiveness, even those intended to be plain, simple, and neutral. For example, a...

We just received a handsome new book set in Lucida Math and Lucida Bright Greek fonts: “Πραγματική Ανάλυση” ["Pragmatiki Analysi" = “Real Analysis”] by Anoussis, Tsolomitis, & Felouzis. From the University of the Aegean on the sunny isle of Samos (ancient birthplace of mathematician Pythagoras, philosopher Epicurus, and astronomer Aristarchus). But this book is indisputably modern: composed with the LuaLaTeX math software derived from Donald Knuth’s popular TeX math composition system. Reminds us of our years working with Don Knuth at sunny Stanford. The book has a rare - probably unique - form of colophon, shaped like an infinity sign,...

New issue of French typography journal "Cahiers GUTenberg" features an article by Charles Bigelow on historical and modern designs of O and zero, and their problems and principles. French translation with additional notes and appendices by Jacques André. Cover image by Kris Holmes of rotating-concentric zero uses all 18 new weights of Lucida Sans. (The cover date lags a couple of years behind the calendar; this issue is new). The English version was  published as "Oh, oh, zero!" in TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 168-181, 2013. French readers may be assured that the French...