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Re: Typeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
Well said. The Canada 150 logo is a knock-off (type designers might say revival) of Stuart Ash’s 1967 centennial design. If I was the student’s prof she would get an F for plagiarism.1 -
Re: Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?
I’m pretty sure most people, i.e. non-mathematicians, would consider upright math symbols in an all-italic setting to be a mistake—if they were to notice. I personally have no trouble italicizing the…1 -
Re: Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?
I’ve always italicized them in italic fonts. They look silly otherwise in text that is predominantly italic. Now that math symbols are included in basic encoding, there’s no need to have them indepen…7 -
Re: Ink Bleed Simulation - Worth it?
It’s what you have to do when reviving a metal-era type design, because the accommodation of ink gain was, tacitly, part of the original design. The thing is, it’s not just “blur”, because metal type…3 -
Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
After I have drawn the Regular, I use this as a background layer over which I draw the skeleton path of the Hairline weight, with the pen tool in FontLab. For the Extra Bold, I start by beefing up th…1
