Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: Glyphs thickness

    As this is small caps, I suggest you examine it at small cap size, in text settings combined with capitals, lower case, and numerals. Especially italic lower case. In other words, you won’t know how …
  • Re: Looking for a Caslon Font

    @"C.Fransen" Yes. But reads too much like a “z,” for those not familiar with cursive. Still, props to Instagram for educating popular taste on such matters!
  • Re: Subscripts vertical alignment

    Denominators (in slash-virgule fractions) that sit on the baseline can be too similar to old-style numerals, as can be seen in this example of Electra. Note also that sixteenths were not included in …
  • Re: MyFonts in ChatGPT

    AI searches follow power curve distribution. (A mimicry of human behaviour, in which certain cultural choices—e.g. Helvetica, Taylor Swift—tend to dominate all others, with the mean being far above t…
  • Re: InkTrapGenerator — Plugin for Glyphs

    Although they are called ink traps, they also served to counteract the degradation of sharp outline that occurred in the many photographic transfers that occurred during the print production workflow…
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