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I would say no, based on Parachute’s Bague Round. Panos Vassiliou breaks a lot of the “proper” conventions in his designs, but not here. (View Post)

When a vertical stem is skewed, the area remains the same but the thickness decreases. So “the amount of ink on the page” remains the same, which gives the impression, en masse, of the same weight in… (View Post)

You're still assuming that people are typing in the text in the case that suits your font. Presume, instead, that the text already exists, and your font is just part of the formatting applied to that… (View Post)

Thanks, Stephen! Welcome Tiffany and James! (View Post)

Some of my early all caps typefaces had some unicase variants in the lowercase slots such as e or a. But I've since regretted that and usually removed them in updates. If I want to provide unicase va… (View Post)

I’ve implemented a “caps with small caps” format on several typefaces. It’s an added value to users, in that, apart from mixed case usage, it gives them the equivalent of two matched optical sizes, w… (View Post)

Hello everyone, I’m Florian and this is my first post on TypeDrawers. I suspect some of you are using Git to version control your source files. Git can label code-differences for many programming lan… (View Post)

ITC used Book and Medium frequently: * ITC American Typewriter Medium * ITC Avant Garde Book and Medium * ITC Bauhaus Medium * ITC Benguiat Book and Medium * ITC Benguiat Gothic Book and Medium * ITC… (View Post)

Yes, it matters. Foundries don’t need to compromise on anything, but they DO need to do the things they can to avoid unneeded size bloat. Making good use of TrueType components for example. Users are… (View Post)

Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kupfers/8257985061/ (View Post)