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Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
I think that GPT report is best if read aloud in Slavoj Žižek’s voice, especially the line ‘The Pope is flattened into a badly spaced name.’5 -
Re: The Pilcrow
I vote “yes” and make an italic pilcrow. In general, my default is to make all letters slanted in an italic font. I have a specific list of glyphs to keep upright in an italic, originally based on Ad…5 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
I've tried to un-distort an image of the inscription, and added equal rectangles between the letters. They are not all the same distance, see NC and VS which are noticeably more narrow. (Source image)5 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7 -
Re: Out of Hundreds:What made the judge choose this typeface?
The poster for the inaugural competition:7 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
(Sorry to sidetrack) Dave, she has some great work! Really like some of her mix of type and imagery. That Welsh slate medium looks really nice.6 -
Re: Launching a foundry with just one font
You’re trying to optimize something that doesn’t need to be optimized. Just launch and get started working on the next thing.10 -
Re: Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?
Almost anything by Tobias Frere-Jones is worth studying.7 -
Re: Vietnamese diacritic ascender adjustments
I thought that’s what the fsSelection bit 7 USE_TYPO_METRICS was for — to allow WinAscent/Descent to be greater in order to prevent clipping, but to direct that TypoAscender/Descender/LineGap should…5 -
Re: Pricing a limited font?
The other thing I want to mention is, my own experience is that I am VERY good at UNDERestimating the time something will take me, when it comes to type design. In fact, in my experience, the overwhe…7
