Hi!
I know many of you conduct workshops/classes on type.
I'm trying to find a good way of teaching the concept of bone effect and why it's important to smooth out the joining of rounded and straight segments.
Can you please share your experience and whatever worked best for you in explaining this particular point?
Thanks!
Rodrigo
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“Taking off in a roller coaster from the flat into a perfect circle loop would brake your spine, as the curvature would infinitely increase from the straight line to a fixed amount of curve speed in the circle. Or imagine the impossibility of your car's steering wheel needing to be turned instantly by a fixed angle from the straight road into a curve. Instead, any moving object turns into a curve progressively, starting with no curvature and slowly increasing it over time.”
We are able to distinguish very slight variances -- less than one degree -- from true level or true vertical, but not between, say 47˚ from 48˚.
IMO this relates to the way we process information categorically, with the concept of “true” being markedly different from even the slightest deviation.
This is why a transitional buffer zone is required between straight and curve, because we pay particular (and distracting) attention to the transitional point at which the line changes from one category—dead straight—to another.