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Re: The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
That “t” is wild!3 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
Eh. It may be on purpose, but having the curve-to-straight joins look like somebody glued separate pieces together ... ouch. Yes, some people did that with compass and ruler back in the modern days, …1 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
Yes, Adobe’s apps that use their CoolType font library do that. (Some fonts can still display both Regular and Book in these apps—but only because they are “special cased” in the core library code!)1 -
Re: Calibrating weights across variable widths
Great question! In our current variable font project, I am simply going with keeping numeric weight constant. Doing otherwise would be especially tricky given the contrast axis in the typeface. Howev…2 -
Re: Inks and Papers in the context of historical font revivals
The main thing is, whatever the source of clothing rags, there was a very limited supply. When the cost of printing plummeted due to powered printing presses, the price of printed materials dropped, …1
