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Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
Well, the variable font allows for arbitrary weights! Anybody using the variable font can still get at any weight they like. The redefined weights would only impact the predefined instances—and proba…2 -
Re: Care to share your favourite type specimens?
“Online type specimen” sounds like online-first or online-only, like the ones Grilli do. Is that what you mean?1 -
Re: Reviving an Art Deco Font
Do you want to reproduce every idiosyncrasy of the original book-cover lettering? The original lettering had that capital “O” with a major top overshoot and an even more exaggerated bottom overshoot,…1 -
Re: Reviving an Art Deco Font
Droping the oversize of O and Q will be beneficial for the font’s credibiliy. The bottom of J is too heavy.the @ and € sign … ?the counter of ¶ wants to be wider.– Overall, a rather nice exercise.1 -
Re: Reviving an Art Deco Font
Great job on the lower case, Ben! Ditto Ray on the period. The Euro could do with more heft. Favourite Philo Vance: Basil Rathbone in The Bishop Murder Case.1 -
Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
The printing press's invention made possible vastly more books, so it wouldn't surprise me to find that it increased the demand for people who could hand illustrate and decorate those books to imitat…1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
It takes me less time to draw the new thing than find the old thing. Edit: Except the ASCII blockdraw character range, which I rarely need. I copy/paste it from NK57 Monospace.1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
My understanding is that San Francisco was developed in-house at Apple, not by an outside designer. If any outside designers were involved, they haven't spoken publicly about it that I'm aware of.3 -
Re: Reviving an Art Deco Font
I like the vibe! Feels like some more similarity is needed between /p & /q. Specifically, it's the circular /q that's throwing me off a bit, especially with the very sharp angle in the /p.1 -
Re: Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
Which is probably why the shape is closer to an acute (half caron) rather than a comma, which often looks too complex up there.1