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Re: Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
@"Grzegorz Luk (gluk)", I think your solution is decent. For the record, it’s not always simplified, but more often than not. Spacing and size is another difference, apart from the shape. H…2 -
Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
Type design is probably in the safest place, compared to some other creative jobs: 1. There’s not enough data to process 2. It’s too imprecise 3. It can only do average With some massive effort one …3 -
Re: Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface
Thick crossbar is the artifact of the broad nib pen held at an angle, typical for ‘old-style’ or ‘humanist’ styles with a diagonal contrast. Not only it’s thick, but often also slanted, and can form …1 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
Let me say this for Kris: how many foundries out there have that level of craft, style and promo materials?1 -
Re: The (real) size of a typeface
That’s like asking why real life ants look so different from macro photos of them. Resolution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you’re looking for a text face with some sort of character, just test various fonts in that…2
