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Re: What do you call this part of an /r?
Ear or arm. But occasionally “sticky-outy bit”.4 -
Scrunch!
Some major phototypositing, back in 1972. Note also the chopped off ascenders. I wonder if the art director insisted that the copy have no descenders…4 -
Re: Scrunch!
Would typositor have produced the inconsistent baseline of “invent”?2 -
Re: Family x-Height
I theorize that we are aware of both the absolute size of text letters and their size as “stroked paths”—i.e. linear shapes which have thickness. Who knows, perhaps we also factor the size of the cou…6 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
I don’t think it’s a problem, the constraints of hand movement and tool are common. In this example by Marcus Musurus (Burney MS 96, f 144r), there is not much stroke width contrast, but from what th…2
