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Re: manual hintig necessary?
Fwiw, I just confirmed that ALMOST all the Aptos family has no glyph-level manual hinting. The Narrow styles however are the new default in Excel, and Excel still uses old-school GDI rendering (!) so…7 -
Re: type critic: "Wollner" a neo-grotesk (neo grotesque) sans-serif inspired by Alexandre Wollner
Wow, this is really starting to come together. Looking considerably more refined!1 -
Re: manual hintig necessary?
It really depends on the use case(s) and client(s). But mostly, for most fonts and font designers/developers? No. I will be very curious to know/check the degree to which the new MS Aptos has careful…5 -
Re: Fonts with capital letters slightly less than full height
From the typefaces referred to in the question, I infer that what the questioner is asking about is typefaces with ascenders that go significantly above the cap height. Which is also what I would cal…3 -
Re: Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
The main thing is, the original lettering would have had the “V” cut characteristic of chiseling. When traced over with some sort of power tool, it loses that and becomes just rounded. I assume one c…3
