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Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
Copying an old printed text sample, revival or restoration, needs to take account of the two media it bridges. —Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types The gulf between metal and digital typography cannot …7 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
I think it’s best to work out basic criteria for yourself, in two ways. Firstly, by examining how others have done it, by opening up their fonts and seeing if there are any general principles that em…2 -
Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
@"mauro sacchetto" However, several classic serif faces have notably wider sidebearings on /I. Standardization may seem like a good idea, but I have to wonder whether this “cut and paste” e…4 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
I can see it might be useful for the textured stuff Ray mentions, but for me, I’ve tried it a few times on solid types, and it took so long to clean up the autotracing, why bother, so I just manually…2 -
Re: Knuth Scotch
On the one hand, his father was a printer, so it may be assumed that Mr Knuth was aware of the effects of rendering process on type form, but on the other, as he once remarked (not about CM) "Be…5
