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Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
Comparing fonts for readability is tricky business... For one thing, apparent size cannot be ignored, and a Garamond would need to be much larger (hence wider, a problem) to match the letterwise leg…0 -
Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
My point is the density gain is in the vertical dimension. And shorter saccades might be an indication of non-immersion. I think in proper readability testing (where boumas come out of hiding) speed …0 -
Re: The Morisawa competition is open.
> No one is twisting arms to force you to enter. True. It's still borderline scammy fine-print. And it's so easy to forego the bad juju with a single-digit increase in the fee to submit.1 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
Only if the darker weight is too dark. A judiciously dark weight will do the job with far less of the undesirable skew of the "voice" of the Roman that virtually all Italics cause; cursive…0 -
Re: Considering new computer: Feedback on MacBook Pros from last couple years.
Type design is one of the very few fields where having a Mac can make more sense. It's a shame, and I hope it gets fixed.4
