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Re: Small caps as a variable font axis in Glyphs?
People have proposed that sort of thing for bundling Roman and Italic; your suggestion is even more dramatic. It certainly sounds convenient, I just don't know how much trickier that would make produ…1 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
> How does the reader, conditioned with .... The same way people have learned new things since time immemorial?1 -
"W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
In case you still haven't heard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letterformarchive/w-a-dwiggins-a-life-in-design?token=80d07c32 William Addison Dwiggins was a genius, and I don't use that term l…7 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Actually I've long thought that the most meaningful use of colorfonts involves having shades of gray.2 -
Re: Show me your failures!
Indeed there's no better teacher than being wrong in public. My first fonts were on 8×8 bitmaps, which means they couldn't be very good or very bad. But my first outline font had plenty of leeway to …8