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Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
After I have drawn the Regular, I use this as a background layer over which I draw the skeleton path of the Hairline weight, with the pen tool in FontLab. For the Extra Bold, I start by beefing up th…1 -
Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
I make the Regular first. It embodies and clarifies the ethos of the typeface best, in particular stroke contrast, angle of stress and cadence (the new word for rhythm/colour—Erik Spiekermann and oth…3 -
Re: Tips for creating small caps in FontLab
Four global variables are: - height- weight - horizontal scale- spacing These are all attributes that can be adjusted fairly accurately in InDesign or Quark, by applying values to the basic capitals.…1 -
Re: Legibility
Its scientific name is “filling in” (!) Here’s a scientific paper which discusses it: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S00426989060039322 -
Re: Legibility
The typical representations of blurriness are misleading. That’s not how we see, nor how we think we see. In the first place, the image that falls on the retina, during immersive reading, is not perc…3
