I’d happily fast-forward to the times where people would make some more text typefaces with uninteresting textures. Glad David Berlow is still making them. In times where everything is trying to grab my attention, I’d much rather the book typeface didn’t.
1. Not me. 2. Obviously a non-kerning environment. Which might have prompted a different spacing strategy. (But probably only if it was destined for a closed system, which I guess this was not?) 3. I had a similar first impression.
Bookerly is now accompanies by a better text engine on Kindle
Stephen, the overshoot in the actual files is okay, it looks this way in the low resolution images which show the letters after hinting has been applied
Adam,
1. The quotation marks are not so tiny according to the designers.
2. Unlike Kindle, the Play Books text environment is based on Android's web renderer, so doesn't apply kerning, although it is in the font.
Ken, TT have tried their best to space the design to work reasonable in such environments. Do you think you could do better?
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http://www.type-together.com/literata
https://www.flickr.com/photos/typetogether/sets/72157652433541065/
2. I wonder who thinks that the phrases “T o sit staring” and “T here was something” in the image linked above look very odd?
3. I wonder who thinks that “Literata” is just way too similar a name to “Litteratra” ( http://kltf.de/kltf_litteratra.shtml )?
2. Obviously a non-kerning environment. Which might have prompted a different spacing strategy. (But probably only if it was destined for a closed system, which I guess this was not?)
3. I had a similar first impression.
Bookerly is now accompanies by a better text engine on Kindle
Stephen, the overshoot in the actual files is okay, it looks this way in the low resolution images which show the letters after hinting has been applied
Adam,
1. The quotation marks are not so tiny according to the designers.
2. Unlike Kindle, the Play Books text environment is based on Android's web renderer, so doesn't apply kerning, although it is in the font.
Ken, TT have tried their best to space the design to work reasonable in such environments. Do you think you could do better?
3. I think the names are not too similar.