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Re: PUA encoding and pro users
Back in the day, Adobe used to ship fonts with all the alternates also PUA-encoded, and I never saw such a complaint. But at the same time, very few people used that mechanism to access those glyphs.…3 -
Re: Widths, weights and appropriate naming
The entire point of the numbers is to generate something that “looks right.” Which numbers are “correct” is dependent on perception. So, yes, a misunderstanding, but not on my part.1 -
Re: Widths, weights and appropriate naming
Exactly. The progression of these things may differ between typefaces.... My own tests show that this can affect what I perceive as the ideal weight curve. The whole notion of a weight curve is perc…1 -
Re: Amplitude - A typeface designed for airplane cockpits
Interesting about the diagonal-lines thing. As aircraft vibration is often either vertical or horizontal, diagonal lines would be easier to read with either of those, and no more susceptible to oscil…4 -
Re: Widths, weights and appropriate naming
I am quite sure I believe that the design of a font is relevant for the choice of its weight progression logic. In particular, the “weight progression” is being defined solely in terms of the vertic…2
