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Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
Not when the serif has much more contrast than the sans. In that scenario, different serif weights are likely to have a consistent x-height. But the sans x-height increases the bolder it gets. That’s…5 -
Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
I’ve created suites of sans and serif, designed to work together, but I don’t believe in transforming one into the other. That goes against the principle of contrast. My biggest concern is that they …3 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I stopped putting Panose values in fonts when I realized that those which FontLab generates automatically can cause mistakes, as some layout applications use this data for things like weight, rather …1 -
Pseudo-random distress: a redundancy?
If the purpose of display type style is, more so than body text, to signify a certain kind of tonality (such as artistic), then ironically, mimicking an “organic” process defeats that purpose, becau…5 -
Re: Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com
The web site appears to be missing a picture of you sporting deerstalker, cape and meerschaum.8
