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Re: Small Capitals
You probably want to modulate the amount of width gain in smallcaps across the weight range. Your heaviest weight uppercase letters are already proportionally much squarer than the lighter weights, s…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Heh. It never crossed my mind to use a pair of letters as spacing keys, but I can immediately see the benefit: nuanubnucnudnuenufnugnuhnuinujnuknulnumnu...2 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
These are called test strings or as Arnold Bank used to call "necklaces". My favorite lowercase necklace is "nu" between each lowercase glyph. As John Hudson says, for sidebearing…4 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
For reviewing primary (non-kerning) spacing, I find the best test to be between key glyphs that do not usually require kerning. For Latin uppercase, this is usually HAHBCHDHEHFHGHHHIHJHKHLHMH... Lati…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Font Studio was very nice, but a little buggy. And it didn't get many updates before Letraset stopped working on it. Eventually it was bought by Adobe. Not sure what they did with it. [Edit: Act…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Grid test (never heard of it) actually doesn't seem very useful to me...2 -
Re: Small Capitals
With regard to petite caps, it is worthwhile to consider the nature of the typefaces for which Zuzana Licko designed them, such as Mrs Eaves, which had a short x-height. The smallcap / petite cap dis…3 -
Re: Small Capitals
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Re: Small Capitals
I feel somewhat obligated to point out that a very, very small percentage of potential users will even know about, let alone use, petite caps. I don't bother adding them to my typefaces—smallcap…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland said: Yeah I bet that was the issue. Just tried the 2.5 demo version on my SE/30 (which has FPU) and seems to run great: Also hats off to whoever added this …8
