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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 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Another simple solution: let the user stretch the slider, changing the step size. By the way, Florian has a very good point that axes are not always linear.2 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
I’ve never heard anyone complaining about color pickers faking choice by giving 1 px steps which look identical: #0500FE is indistinguishable from #0500FF, but I haven’t seen anyone asking to ban one…2
