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Re: The future of type
I’ve been exploring the possibilities of alternates and contextuality within OpenType for a while now, and there’s a lot of neat stuff that can be done, but it is starting to feel a bit bogus—if all …2 -
Re: The future of type
I would say the bounce metaphor is more along the lines of positioning Letraset by eye (around Paul at left): or Matisse cut-outs. https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/matisse/the-cut-o…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 -
Re: lcaron and dcaron
I would suggest plenty of sidebearing, so that in a word like Veľká, the accent looks closer to its letter than the next. For the same reason, be wary of kerning with x-height letters, in words such …5 -
Re: Designing slash glyphs in heavy weights
There is some Lslash typography in which the slash doesn’t stick out on the left side, at all. In fact, in display use liberties with how accents are handled have been taken, in Poland; another insta…3
