John Savard

  • Re: Letterform Innovation?

    This is a very common view. And, indeed, it is true of type design as commonly practiced. (The term typography is most commonly used to refer to the use of typefaces in page design and layout, or ty…
  • Re: Typeface Feedback

    Except for the third of those, I didn't think I was saying that. It was stylistic consistency between weights that I had been dismissing (at least to the level it seemed to me some comments were con…
  • Re: Typeface Feedback

    You are right that the blackest weight is perhaps flawed. Since usually black weights of typefaces have to be redesigned to such an extent that they're really new typefaces, I hadn't taken that into…
  • Re: Typeface Feedback

    It's only the versions of i and I that are accented that have this problem. I realize that this may seem like a point that's too obvious for words, but as a native speaker of English, I have to remin…
  • Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri

    It's not that bad, at least in my opinion. If anything, the serif version seems to be even less bad than Georgia. And the normal sans-serif version of Aptos seems to be quite good.Good enough, in fa…
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