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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
True, but isn’t the very idea of oldstyle German type an anachronism? Weren’t all historic German types of the XVI–XVIII centuries in the Fraktur style? So now, they might be compared with a similar …2 -
Re: New Open Source Font by Production Type: Spectral
It helps that a new typeface looks good when the glyphs are closely inspected up large, even if the intended usage is small. That’s because one purposively forms one’s impression of where it fits in …1 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
No. I’m saying that type needs to breathe, and fonts in which gaps are closed up—which is the majority of kerning—have the air sucked out of them. Also, consider the default (above) of Helvetica, com…5 -
Re: When did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?
Certainly, fonts do have rendering problems at low resolution, but how much distortion is acceptable is open to debate. Microsoft and Apple took different approaches, crisp vs. fuzzy. In as much as M…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Marketing is crucial for retail fonts. Unless a western corporation licences a Latin-Cyrillic-Greek typeface family for a nice fee, there is insufficient return on investment for native Latin designe…1
