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Re: Advice on 'j's
(3) does not fit the general look of the typeface. It is the sort of thing you see in radical geometric sans, not a classic grotesque like this. Both (1) and (2) are viable options. I prefer (2), as …2 -
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
