What do you do when you realize that extra-bold versions of your figures will never fit in the width at which you have set tabular figures in slimmer weights?
Is the narrowest width in which you can squeeze an acceptable /8/ or /0/ at your boldest target weight effectively the tabular advance width for that font?
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But my initial problem might have resolved itself when I remembered that I only intended to do the extreme weights in the "display" cut of the typeface, and on reflection it seems like there's not much point to tabular figures in a display font. Right?
I can't be as devil-may-care about this as James M and James T; I've designed too many annual reports...
But for thins and blacks, they can go their own way/width.
Often I end up with bold tab figures that are quite squished and very different from their proportional equivalents.