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Re: Fonts in use - what annoys you?
Adobe’s Optical Metrics. Makes my font(s) look like they were fitted by an amateur.7 -
Re: Bold spacing and kerning rules
I don’t necessarily agree with this. Depending upon the relationship between styles, I have found that I can often start from previous kerning. If I am methodical and consistent in my development of …11 -
Re: Does that “y” exist?
I do think Dan’s hypothesis is an interesting one. The appearance of this style when it did may be more than purely coincidental. I don’t know that anyone will ever run across any definitive “proof,”…1 -
Re: Does that “y” exist?
This was a driving principle behind the Standard Lining (aka Point-Line) system that was being adopted by founders in the U.S. in the 1890s and elsewhere in the first decade of the 1900s, not unique …5 -
Re: Looking for references: rounded fat faces/1800s slabs
P.S. All that rounding and softening in the samples you mentioned are later exaggerations of wear-and-tear associated with a romantic notion of the earlier period. Type makers from the 1800s weren’t …1
