The Washington Post has gone all fonty
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James Montalbano
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This is a pretty well-done article, I think. I often cringe at "font" articles for a general audience.2
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Irks me that they capitalize "X height", even as they define it as "literally the height of a lowercase letter x compared to a capital one"!2
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Yeah, that is irksome. I wonder if that was careless application of editorial/style standards.0
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Maybe so. They appear to get eBay, mRNA, and bell hooks correct!
Is the term "x-height" unique in the degree of its self-referentiality? To me it is not just better left lowercase, but actually only correct that way.1 -
I pretty much agree with you, but I can appreciate the idea that it’s just a term and that it’s fine to capitalize it at the beginning of a sentence or similar circumstances. (Not the case here in the article of course; they’re just capitalizing it everywhere. That’s wrong.)1
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