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Re: Should we tell Adobe how bad the Illustrator UI is for drawing with beziers?
I abandoned Illustrator 25 years ago, when it became bloated with featuritis. Till that time, it was great, but afterwards geared towards fancy effects, not basic drawing, which paradoxically became …2 -
Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
I think PostScript, with its attention to hinting, especially alignment zones, has given an importance to the baseline, and created a semantic groove that present day type designers can easily fall i…5 -
Re: New Google Fonts + Bungee, Scope One, Space Mono
Space Mono, a good companion for emoji face types.2 -
Re: Isn't the handle extended way too much here?
A little trick, going back to pre-digital days, making the transition between straight and curved less abrupt. I learned this from Malcolm Waddell.6 -
Re: Figures
Old-style figures have a horizontal stress, like traditional Hebrew. Lining figures may be considered the Latinization of the original arabic forms.1
