-
Re: Does that “y” exist?
Clearly I'm no professional type designer. The only thing I could see (apparently) wrong with the typeface sample that began this thread was that the capital Y should have had a shallower V-part…2 -
Re: Aspects of quality for a typeface
This reminds me of the famous quotation: "If there were an individual, readily recognized quality or characteristic which the type designer could incorporate in drawings that would make any one …6 -
Re: Brain Sees Words As Pictures
For myself, the first thing I think of is that in Cgiarbmde, the "g" has become a hard g, while in Cmarbidge, the sounds stay the same, but are re-ordered. The idea that it is all interrel…1 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
Of course, though, kerns "in the traditional sense" have one thing in common to targeted adjustments versus a negative sidebearing. If a kerned letter like an f with an overhang is followe…2 -
Re: Article on typography & culture wars
That, as Hrant as said, typography may be more politically charged than we are willing to acknowledge, may well be true. However, I don't think that the article referenced made a convincing case…1
