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Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
as long as the type designer is making it what he wants it to be instead of letting it be whatever happens without control, it is fine with me.1 -
Re: It's not a perfect ellipse, why?
Designing type is not a geometry perfect task. Practice your drawing skills more and learn to "see". The eye is the final arbiter.4 -
Re: It's not a perfect ellipse, why?
I have just come across this article. It seems to hint at a "greater meaning" regarding time and space and how we perceive it. https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2016/01/28/bringing-ti…1 -
Re: How do I start working on italics?
Diagonal letters like X,V,W,K R get the slanted strokes more distorted than the rectilinear ones. check stem weights of your uprights for reference.4 -
Re: Grunge Typography
To me, there is a difference between Emigre, New Wave, and Grunge. Emigre and New Wave were more deconstruction, as is Carson. Grunge was more defaced, battered, weathered, eroded. The Pacific Northw…5
