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Brigitte wir, issue 3, 2016

Contributed by Jakob Runge  on Jul 22nd, 2016. Artwork published in .

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  1. Albert-Jan Pool assumes that ITC Binary is the result of tinkering with the already fishy Rotis Semi Serif:

    […] the corners were rounded and the left below stem of d was cut off. As if this was not already enough, the top serif of A was torn off, leaving a vaguely defined start of the main diagonal stem. Why? The natural rhythm of thick and thin was destroyed by making the right stem of N thicker than the left one, this causing a dark spot at the join right below in the N. And, maybe worst of all, someone made the d much wider than e and o, thus distorting one of the few characteristics of Rotis that helped conceiving the hodgepodge of design styles within the typeface as some sort of design concept: its condensed proportions …

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