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Re: Are "pixel" traps a thing?
What Mike said. But if we’re talking about readability pure and simple, it is a bit of an affectation, because the alternative in letters like V is to taper the strokes with an even line, and that lo…1 -
Re: Typeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
So cheap, no respect for the design profession. First they crowd-sourced the logo as spec*, then they went looking for a free font to go with it! Fortunately they found Ray, prepared to go the extra …3 -
Re: Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?
Not much, and in the early days of DTP Adobe fonts used to leave those code points glyphless, IIRC. Taking that as a cue for their irrelevance, I filled up those spots with other goodies such as extr…3 -
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: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
I make the Regular first. It embodies and clarifies the ethos of the typeface best, in particular stroke contrast, angle of stress and cadence (the new word for rhythm/colour—Erik Spiekermann and oth…3
