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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 -
Re: Tips for creating small caps in FontLab
Four global variables are: - height- weight - horizontal scale- spacing These are all attributes that can be adjusted fairly accurately in InDesign or Quark, by applying values to the basic capitals.…1 -
Re: Legibility
Its scientific name is “filling in” (!) Here’s a scientific paper which discusses it: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S00426989060039322 -
Re: Legibility
The typical representations of blurriness are misleading. That’s not how we see, nor how we think we see. In the first place, the image that falls on the retina, during immersive reading, is not perc…3 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
Regarding general history, Fontshop was huge in nurturing indie designers like me prior to the internet era, and once the web took off, Typophile and Typecon were huge in enabling me to learn and net…2
