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Re: Avoiding hyphenation of digraphs through opentype features
How about if you made alternates for these combinations with reeeeeally wide right sidebearings for the left glyph, then compensated by kerning—would the wide glyphs prevent breaking by exceeding the…2 -
Re: Why are inflections bad?
It’s not necessary for small details. For instance, here is a foot serif from Adobe Garamond (1997).1 -
Re: Font naming - Foundry prefixes
It’s always seemed to me that prefixing a typeface name suggests there are versions by other foundries, alternatives which might be considered. That’s a mindset I’d like to avoid, for various reasons…4 -
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
