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@"James Puckett" If so, I also deserve punishment for Vipnagorgialla, Cutiful, Mlurmlry, Pants Patrol, Pop-Up Fontio, Po Beef, Electorate Boogaloo 3, That Secret Feeling, Frozen Dog Treats … (View Post)

@"Daniel Calders" I got it! Yes, worth WAY more than $8. Thank you. (View Post)

If that is the goal, then I really think you have to come at it other than through the traditional weight naming or even the numeric weight classes as defined by CSS and recent iterations of the OS/2… (View Post)

Pedro, it was obviously a joke, but could we agree that "tyner" should never, ever be a thing? ;) (View Post)


Unless it's a Helvetica revival. (View Post)

It is, but not all the users are. (View Post)

PS. I have for a while now thought that the only way to achieve optical equivalence interoperably—not just in terms of weight, but also proportion—may be to standardise a common reference model. (View Post)


This is true. People have different ideas about this. And that is OK and desirable, not a bug to be stamped out. For fonts without optical size variants, even something as simple as the idea… (View Post)

Overall color of a typeface is set not by the thickness of stems alone, but by the proportions of black and white. A condensed “gaspipe” style O with a thickness of x% of height will read as heavier … (View Post)

One of my favorite type names of recent times is Agmena. It’s short, pronounceable, looks good when set in itself and when searching for it online you’ll only find the type and nothing else. So, conc… (View Post)