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Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
The following is completely anecdotal coffeetable psychology that I'm making up as I go along: Upright roman letterforms are static, akin to bodybuilders and weightlifters. Italic letterforms ar…13 -
Re: Hinting help for a major type design project. (hinting genius needed)
I can second the recommendation for Monika Bartels http://fontwerk.de/ . She did the two TT hinting webinars with FontLab Studio (which are useful to understand the principles even if you don't …3 -
Re: Would you consider OTF "source" for e.g. an open source font project?
There currently isn't a single source format that is able to store sources of all kinds of data that can end up in an SFNT font. There are several monochrome and color glyph flavors, several lay…2 -
Re: Cyrillic italics vs. obliques
To some extent “how humanist”, to some extent simply how much more cursive (dynamic) the italic is in comparison to the upright. The Futura and News Gothic both have obliques that are equally static …6 -
Re: GlyphsApp, Prepolator, & Superpolator vs. Just Plain GlyphsApp
Dave, I see a certain contradiction in what you're saying: you say that .glyphs is becoming an "industry-standard source format" while you cite examples of foundries using various tool…7
