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Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
No. I’m saying that type needs to breathe, and fonts in which gaps are closed up—which is the majority of kerning—have the air sucked out of them. Also, consider the default (above) of Helvetica, com…5 -
Re: When did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?
Certainly, fonts do have rendering problems at low resolution, but how much distortion is acceptable is open to debate. Microsoft and Apple took different approaches, crisp vs. fuzzy. In as much as M…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Marketing is crucial for retail fonts. Unless a western corporation licences a Latin-Cyrillic-Greek typeface family for a nice fee, there is insufficient return on investment for native Latin designe…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
There is no such thing as a type design industry, just as there is no book writing industry, film directing industry, or automobile designing industry. The numbers being discussed here refer primaril…2 -
Re: automatic spacing correction for locl FRA. Good or bad?
I do a similar thing in the Fraction feature, replacing the space between a number and a following fraction by a thin space.2
