For many centuries, the upper and lower case Latin C/c of the common serifed text types were given a different treatment, but not S/s. Jakob Erbar’s Candida (1937) broke with that convention, with it… (View Post)
Tim and Christian—this is perhaps why I have usually gravitated towards the “Orangeville” style (flat and curved top), a compromise between your differing opinions. (View Post)
I don’t think so. Large gaps around “i” and tightness around “m” are unavoidable. However, as i, l and t are such common letters compared to m and w, there is always more gappyness in monowidth text … (View Post)
I’m post-ironic. One never knows whether one’s silly ideas will amount to anything, or where they will lead, until one tries them out. Thank you for “taking the ball and running with it”! (View Post)
In recent work, I discovered that the italic angle of the lower case of my Scotch Modern (a facsimile revival of a mid-19th century design) was the same as the angle of the right-leaning diagonals of… (View Post)