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Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Even with Vignelli’s list as given, my first question is… WHICH Garamond and which Bodoni? Also, I would put a humanist sans serif (e.g. Myriad) on the list and drop one of the non-Garamond serif fac…2 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Right, and there were at least half a dozen major versions of Garamond available at the time. I guess if you were using phototype or hot metal, it would be whatever your particular machinery maker o…1 -
Re: Just getting started...
Yeah, we went from 512 in the old legacy font version of the icons, to 480—and then 960 when we needed more precision. Even if you are initially pulling from an SVG file, you don’t know what the futu…1 -
Re: Inconsistent overshoots?
Your top-of-serif won’t get its overshoot controlled. That means it will not get rounded down to the x-height at any particular size, and may sometimes visible float above the x-height—especially at …2 -
Re: Interpolation - Smooth to Sharp Transition
If you have a real curve, in a non-variable font, and one handle is retracted onto the on-curve point, that is usually just sloppy. In variable fonts, there are cases where such constructions are not…2
