My new favorite test word

Chris Lozos
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  • Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
    Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
    It has a nice ring to it :-) but it has the same problem as "adhesion": no descender.
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    I agree but the meaning is so me ;-)
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,013
    Witzelsüchtig, then?
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    Adhesion has very good uses for early phases of design when you are working with what I call "benign" glyphs--glyphs that rarely require kerning but demonstrate the core spacing intent in the font. You set the color and rhythm and play with what the target reading size might be without the added chore of kerning. It is good to have several test words for different phases of design.  Perhaps there are some marvelous Czech words that could suffice for later in the process?
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  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    That is a bit Soupy, James ;-)

  • Beau Williamson
    Beau Williamson Posts: 80
    My favorite for testing heavy scripts has been 'bananarama', along with the classic 'minimum'.
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    Minimum is a good one.  I suppose all of the "a" glyphs in scripts show a different need and a classic connecting issue.

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