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Re: Is ubiquity of a typeface good or bad?
Ubiquity of the most popular fonts follows Zipf curve distribution. In other words, the most popular fonts are way more popular than the rest—it’s a power law, not a linear relationship. There are ma…1 -
Re: How would you characterize today's typographic trend?
With the introduction of FontLab for Mac, I started making OpenType fonts. I've always thought that the only really new thing there, artistically speaking, is contextual alternates. Embellishmen…2 -
Re: Sharp Slab (working title)
These letters all have similar widths, except for M (and possibly W). Mix harmony with diversity, as the great Oz once said—so either keep them all the same, or introduce more variety so that M and W…2 -
Re: Metrics for superscript letters
When using them at the bottom of a page to number footnotes? Some typographers do that, but I always used full-sized figures, as the type size for footnotes is so small that superior figures end up b…2 -
Re: Metrics for superscript letters
I make proportional superior and subscript figures, but tabular numerators and denominators. I don’t bother with kerning, except for 74.3
