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Re: A new approach to spacing?
I don’t believe there is such a thing as “optimal” spacing or kerning. It’s a matter of style, dependent on such things as the typographer’s taste and the document context. When I’ve revisited my typ…4 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
Automation is useful in minimizing production grunt work, and can inform design in a powerful and interesting way, but I generally prefer to try and hold as much as possible of glyph relationships in…1 -
Re: Announcing protoType – a curated competition & exhibition
More links please, I’d like to see all selections. (Having missed TypeCon.) Here’s mine: http://shinntype.com/typefaces/neology/5 -
Re: Announcing protoType – a curated competition & exhibition
Interesting stuff! At least three of the selections go beyond type design per se into configuring new alphabetic scripts.1 -
Re: The future of type
I predict that fonts will migrate to become part of layout applications, as parametric (metafont) entities. Eventually. This will shift the focus of interest in typography further away from the reduc…3
