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Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Well Abi, as we’re talking about Goudy, he is well known as a late starter and was still breaking new ground in his ’40s and beyond—he was 46 when his first “signature” style, Kennerley, was publishe…4 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
It’s not very difficult, when writing Roman script in a slow and deliberate manner, with a broad-nib pen, to adjust the angle of the nib (stress) to “tweak” for a more even or meaningful effect, as o…6 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
And continuing further from the OP… Stellar (1929) was available from the Ludlow foundry in Regular and Bold, from 8 pt. to 72 pt., according to Vincent Steer’s Printing Design and Layout, 1945, Lond…2 -
Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
As a “semi serif” style, this typeface emphasizes that those dangly bits on /De and /de are not descenders, but serifs. Indeed, one finds their complete absence in much sans serif poster lettering of…7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
The integration of large amounts of kerning into digital fonts has a bearing on proportion. The reason that L and T are so very narrow in Futura is to smooth out all-cap text colour, when no kerning …7
