Profile

Full name

Carl Crossgrove

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Occupation

Type Designer

Member since

2003-09-08 (11 years 32 weeks)

Home page

www.terrestrialdesign.com

Threads started 6

• node 14546
  11 Aug 2005
• 2-point type at ATypI Helsinki
  21 Oct 2005
• Beorcana Throwdown
  20 Sep 2006
• Underrated/Underused typefaces
  4 Mar 2007
• Letrizmo!
  14 Dec 2007
• Biome Swap
  24 Apr 2012

Replies 235

• The relevance of hand lettering to developments in type design
  1 Mar 2005
• Is Trebuchet a right choice for writing long texts?
  25 Jun 2005
• Is Trebuchet a right choice for writing long texts?
  25 Jun 2005
• Is Trebuchet a right choice for writing long texts?
  25 Jun 2005
• Latin American typefaces
  6 Jul 2005
• Black
  13 Jul 2005
• Why would anyone pay for an expensive licence?
  29 Jul 2005
• Optimal Signage Legibility Fonts
  2 Aug 2005
• Optimal Signage Legibility Fonts
  3 Aug 2005
• Optimal Signage Legibility Fonts
  4 Aug 2005
• Old Church Slavonic Interlock
  4 Aug 2005
• Are type designers nerds?
  24 Aug 2005
• Drawing Outlines: Illustrator vs. FontLab
  26 Aug 2005
• Ledbury
  26 Aug 2005
• Guardian Re design
  9 Sep 2005
• Cyril
  11 Oct 2005
• Fonts for education
  19 Oct 2005
• 2-point type at ATypI Helsinki
  24 Oct 2005
• Cyril
  24 Oct 2005
• A Lurker's First Face
  27 Oct 2005
• Cyril
  28 Oct 2005
• Buying a type for commercial use and suggestions.
  7 Nov 2005
• Cyril
  7 Nov 2005
• I am stuck with this
  7 Nov 2005
• Buying a type for commercial use and suggestions.
  7 Nov 2005
• NOW--The Sans of Time (Taken Lightly for Now)
  11 Nov 2005
• Fontlab limitations
  11 Nov 2005
• NOW--The Sans of Time (Taken Lightly for Now)
  11 Nov 2005
• Olicana - On sale now
  21 Nov 2005
• What's in your analogue type design toolkit?
  22 Nov 2005
• "best" Spacing- and Kerning-Methods?
  2 Dec 2005
• The history of Palatino™
  5 Dec 2005
• Modestly-priced alternatives to DTL and Enschedé Font Foundry fonts?
  6 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  6 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  7 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  7 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  9 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  9 Dec 2005
• Modestly-priced alternatives to DTL and Enschedé Font Foundry fonts?
  16 Dec 2005
• Please Help to Critique My First Font.
  4 Jan 2006
• The Death of the Type Apprenticeship?
  5 Jan 2006
• The Death of the Type Apprenticeship?
  5 Jan 2006
• Critiques of the OpenType format?
  5 Jan 2006
• Critiques of the OpenType format?
  5 Jan 2006
• The Death of the Type Apprenticeship?
  5 Jan 2006
• Critiques of the OpenType format?
  5 Jan 2006
• Critiques of the OpenType format?
  6 Jan 2006
• Similar, complimentary font to Gill Sans
  9 Jan 2006
• Serifs. What's the point?
  13 Jan 2006
• Serifs. What's the point?
  13 Jan 2006
• Type Specimen Copy
  31 Jan 2006
• River
  6 Feb 2006
• Stress in non-circular characters
  10 Feb 2006
• Dilemma: Need a substitute for DTL Prokyon
  29 Mar 2006
• Helvetica is the Greatest or Not
  19 Apr 2006
• Helvetica is the Greatest or Not
  20 Apr 2006
• Helvetica is the Greatest or Not
  21 Apr 2006
• Helvetica is the Greatest or Not
  21 Apr 2006
• Helvetica is the Greatest or Not
  21 Apr 2006
• Metrics on italics: how to do it right?
  8 May 2006
• David Kindersley on Spacing
  8 May 2006
• Underware releases Fakir
  19 May 2006
• TYPE BATTLE: Week 12 (22 May)
  23 May 2006
• TYPE BATTLE: Week 12 (22 May)
  24 May 2006
• The MODERN BLACKLETTER
  30 May 2006
• Another optical trick?
  5 Jun 2006
• Sofa: a cosy typeface
  13 Jun 2006
• Who are the Rock Stars here?
  13 Jun 2006
• Who are the Rock Stars here?
  13 Jun 2006
• blending kerning pairs
  22 Jun 2006
• Politics, Typography, and PETS!
  23 Jun 2006
• Help?
  26 Jun 2006
• How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
  7 Jul 2006
• How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
  7 Jul 2006
• How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
  10 Jul 2006
• Sofa: a cosy typeface
  10 Jul 2006
• Sofa: a cosy typeface
  11 Jul 2006
• How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
  11 Jul 2006
• Tim Rolands' Envoy: Opinions?
  14 Jul 2006
• Who, if anyone, do you use for printing?
  14 Jul 2006
• X-tra Small Caps in Open Type
  18 Jul 2006
• Bussines card unusual sizing
  18 Jul 2006
• Avocet family
  18 Jul 2006
• X-tra Small Caps in Open Type
  21 Jul 2006
• X-tra Small Caps in Open Type
  21 Jul 2006
• Font Family Naming in FontLab
  17 Aug 2006
• Bucentoro Greek
  21 Aug 2006
• Looking for the best Sans Serif EVER
  22 Aug 2006
• Looking for the best Sans Serif EVER
  22 Aug 2006
• Bucentoro Greek
  22 Aug 2006
• Old style figure height?
  25 Aug 2006
• Primus: Font under construction. Please critique!
  7 Sep 2006
• Primus: Font under construction. Please critique!
  11 Sep 2006
• Looking for the best Serif font on earth
  11 Sep 2006
• Primus: Font under construction. Please critique!
  12 Sep 2006
• Beorcana Throwdown
  22 Sep 2006
• 1850-1900 serif remake / caps only
  27 Sep 2006
• Comments On Camingo Typeface - Attack of the Square Sans
  27 Sep 2006
• Comments On Camingo Typeface - Attack of the Square Sans
  28 Sep 2006
• Magazine Redesign / Switching to a Sans-Serif
  4 Oct 2006
• Beorcana Throwdown
  5 Oct 2006
• Beorcana Throwdown
  11 Oct 2006
• Clearview kudos
  25 Oct 2006
• Reading Research: What is Needed?
  25 Oct 2006
• They just can't get away from Trajan
  27 Oct 2006
• Are there indie font collections for students? If not, why?
  31 Oct 2006
• Complementary Serif font for Gill?
  3 Nov 2006
• Complementary Serif font for Gill?
  3 Nov 2006
• Basque lettering/type
  6 Nov 2006
• Whose work is it? Digitizing from a recognized designer's hand lettering...
  6 Nov 2006
• Complementary Serif font for Gill?
  7 Nov 2006
• Whose work is it? Digitizing from a recognized designer's hand lettering...
  7 Nov 2006
• scribble font
  7 Nov 2006
• Type Foundries
  9 Nov 2006
• To buy or not to buy? (Adobe Type Library)
  9 Nov 2006
• (x) Bembo-like text face - Poliphilus, Blado {Patricia}
  10 Nov 2006
• Type Foundries
  12 Nov 2006
• Type Foundries
  12 Nov 2006
• Climax Text: Show no mercy
  13 Nov 2006
• To buy or not to buy? (Adobe Type Library)
  13 Nov 2006
• Women Typographers
  14 Nov 2006
• To buy or not to buy? (Adobe Type Library)
  14 Nov 2006
• Kerning list
  16 Nov 2006
• ADOBE, WHAT HAPPENED? OTs released without OSFs
  17 Nov 2006
• lack of small-cap height lining numerals
  17 Nov 2006
• lack of small-cap height lining numerals
  17 Nov 2006
• lack of small-cap height lining numerals
  17 Nov 2006
• ADOBE, WHAT HAPPENED? OTs released without OSFs
  17 Nov 2006
• lack of small-cap height lining numerals
  17 Nov 2006
• A proposal for new version of Greek glyphs for DejaVu Serif
  25 Nov 2006
• Olicana - On sale now
  28 Nov 2006
• Olicana - On sale now
  28 Nov 2006
• Olicana - On sale now
  28 Nov 2006
• Software Developer - the pleasant monospace
  28 Nov 2006
• Undecided on the name...
  28 Nov 2006
• Sem Hartz and the Making of Linotype Juliana: Now Available
  29 Nov 2006
• Software Developer - the pleasant monospace
  30 Nov 2006
• A proposal for new version of Greek glyphs for DejaVu Serif
  1 Dec 2006
• A proposal for new version of Greek glyphs for DejaVu Serif
  1 Dec 2006
• $ Tshirts
  8 Dec 2006
• $ Tshirts
  8 Dec 2006
• $ Tshirts
  8 Dec 2006
• John Warnock, type designer?
  26 Jan 2007
• Where do bold typefaces come from?
  31 Jan 2007
• Sans Companion for Bembo Book - Giacomo 2?
  31 Jan 2007
• Sans Companion for Bembo Book - Giacomo 2?
  1 Feb 2007
• Problems with the Typophile website?
  6 Feb 2007
• Windows Vista
  9 Feb 2007
• Large X-Heights = More readable?
  16 Feb 2007
• san serif partner for sabon?
  22 Feb 2007
• san serif partner for sabon?
  22 Feb 2007
• Underrated/Underused typefaces
  6 Mar 2007
• Is Avenir an appropriate typeface for wayshowing signage?
  13 Mar 2007
• Is Avenir an appropriate typeface for wayshowing signage?
  13 Mar 2007
• Is Avenir an appropriate typeface for wayshowing signage?
  13 Mar 2007
• Is Avenir an appropriate typeface for wayshowing signage?
  14 Mar 2007
• Correct character spacing
  16 Mar 2007
• (x) New York Times Sunday Magazine headlines - Cheltenham (custom version) {Carl C}
  27 Mar 2007
• Why, oh why ?
  27 Mar 2007
• Who wants/needs a Glyph Palette in Photoshop?
  30 Mar 2007
• Who wants/needs a Glyph Palette in Photoshop?
  30 Mar 2007
• Bezier question
  13 Apr 2007
• Bezier question
  13 Apr 2007
• Bezier question
  13 Apr 2007
• Bezier question
  13 Apr 2007
• Zai, a sans serif
  16 Apr 2007
• handwriting
  25 Apr 2007
• Ambigrams - Frustrating
  26 Apr 2007
• Font-Commerce site
  17 May 2007
• Naming Legalities + Serif/Sans Naming Divergence
  31 May 2007
• Naming Legalities + Serif/Sans Naming Divergence
  31 May 2007
• Proper placement of exclamdown and questiondown
  15 Jun 2007
• Fontlab v Illustrator drawing
  18 Jun 2007
• Your thoughts please...
  19 Jun 2007
• Your thoughts please...
  19 Jun 2007
• Your thoughts please...
  19 Jun 2007
• Your thoughts please...
  19 Jun 2007
• Fontlab v Illustrator drawing
  22 Jun 2007
• Tell me about Arrows please. (This is a type question!)
  12 Jul 2007
• TC07: Lost fonts?
  20 Aug 2007
• All in one typeface for newspaper
  22 Aug 2007
• Font Portfolios
  24 Aug 2007
• COFFEE What Type of Coffee Machine do you have?
  7 Sep 2007
• Methods of licensing digital fonts for making type caster matrixes
  25 Sep 2007
• FONTS THAT LACK KEYBOARD LINKS
  9 Nov 2007
• Spotted any good organic food fonts?
  9 Nov 2007
• Posterony!
  15 Nov 2007
• When bad design goes horribly wrong.
  20 Nov 2007
• Choosing a font for book design?
  3 Dec 2007
• Choosing a font for book design?
  4 Dec 2007
• Choosing a font for book design?
  5 Dec 2007
• Birthday wishes to devilish Delve
  5 Dec 2007
• sans serif becomes serif?
  12 Dec 2007
• Happy B-day Mr.Peters
  8 Jan 2008
• Font Design
  10 Jan 2008
• Gotham as body text
  15 Jan 2008
• Type Critique: Weka
  15 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  25 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  25 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  27 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  29 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  30 Jan 2008
• Know any good legibility tests for typefaces?
  30 Jan 2008
• legibility vs. comfort
  31 Jan 2008
• Cut and then curved
  8 Feb 2008
• Choosing a font for book design?
  15 Feb 2008
• Choosing a font for book design?
  19 Feb 2008
• Avenir & Gotham
  22 Feb 2008
• Categorize type?
  27 Feb 2008
• Fonts for children's books
  28 Feb 2008
• oodles of poodles
  4 Mar 2008
• oodles of poodles
  4 Mar 2008
• How much of a font do *you* draw out by hand.
  13 Mar 2008
• How much of a font do *you* draw out by hand.
  14 Mar 2008
• ADVICE: Good Magazine Faces
  24 Apr 2008
• ADVICE: Good Magazine Faces
  24 Apr 2008
• New Fell Types and new iKern site.
  11 Jun 2008
• Meet Me at TypeCon
  11 Jul 2008
• Meet Me at TypeCon
  11 Jul 2008
• Meet Me at TypeCon
  14 Jul 2008
• Meet Me at TypeCon
  14 Jul 2008
• Meet Me at TypeCon
  14 Jul 2008
• How to Price a Font?
  22 Jul 2008
• Critique - Untitled typeface
  22 Jul 2008
• Veer contract
  22 Jul 2008
• Veer contract
  25 Jul 2008
• new Design: Forma sans
  7 Aug 2008
• Solvejg
  7 Aug 2008
• Solvejg
  8 Aug 2008
• Calligraphy Funny?
  27 Aug 2008
• Type 90/Memories?
  1 Oct 2008
• "Asymmetrical" joins on the N?
  8 Oct 2008
• 'Brushy' + Serif = Dolly Clone?
  7 Nov 2008
• Biome Swap
  19 Jun 2012
• Biome Swap
  22 Jun 2012