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Re: An opportunity for early-career creatives at Google Fonts
As a job-function description, the term emerged during the DDB-led Madison Avenue “Creative Revolution” of the 1960s. The Suits/Creatives terminology was in play when I was in the ad biz in the 1980s…3 -
Re: Margo Chase & Madonna
There was a Goth sensibility to Chase’s work back then, spiky and condensed (or horizontally extended). Mix in some distress. With that vocabulary in play, there was not much need for precedent. Besi…3 -
Re: Most common kern pairs
I designed Oneleigh Italic with a kernless constraint in cap-lc and lc-lc combinations. This was possible by using swash forms of the problem caps, and adopting the “reverse angle stress” lower case …4 -
Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
For sans serif designs, they will likely be producing a family with more than one weight. Certainly, start with the “Regular”. But after that, work on the extremes, and interpolate the other weights.…4 -
Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
You might consider factoring lower case stem width into your cap-centric formula. Tyces with a small x-height, such as Futura, Avenir and Bernhard Modern, have relatively narrow PSTs in their assigne…1
