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Re: Classifying Icone by Adrian Frutiger and Avance by Evert Bloemsma
It certainly is true, though, that most existing schemes of type classification don't leave room for designs as original as Icone and Avance. Even Optima would cause some trouble. To me, Icone looks …1 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
It should be noted that American Type Founders made 3-to-em spaces, 4-to-em spaces, 5-to-em spaces, and so on, that, for some sizes of type, didn't actually go exactly that many to the square of the…0 -
Re: A Meditation on Arno
Ah. This I had not realized. But the first thing I did after reading your post was to find out that it was not he, but rather Carol Twombly, to whom fell the thankless task of designing Adobe Caslon.0 -
Re: Typedesign and science, or: look at what I made!
It is indeed only natural that the science of perception might have something to say about the optical illusions that lead to the need for optical compensation in typeface design. This, though, while…0 -
Re: Font Metrics & Point Size
I remember back in the early days of computer laser printers noticing that "10 point Times Roman" was smaller on a laser printer than it used to be in hot metal. So, from my point of view,…0
