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Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
It’s inevitable that some fonts get “typecast” for certain kinds of uses. Sometimes, like with Neutraface, it’s not surprising. The font was actually based on metal architectural letters used by Rich…2 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Wow, that's a lot. I paid about US$800 for mine ten years ago. (I guessed wrong in my previous post regarding how long I've had it.)1 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Aeron chair here, too, for about 15 years. Very comfortable. The stock Apple Magic Mouse has worked well for me, although it caused problems when it was first introduced (2009). It gave me sharp pain…2 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Not changing the /a and /g in the italic was the usual practice with sans serif italics until the last twenty or thirty years. There are examples of serif faces, mostly around 1900, that did this, su…2 -
Re: Metric and em size
I believe that's true, too. When Apple introduced TrueType, it had to be able to run acceptably on 8 MHz 68000 processors, such as those in the Macintosh Plus and SE.1
