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Re: Legible type design literature/scolars
My scholarly 10¢: There are no ‘optimal’ letter shapes, any more than there are optimal notes or optimal instruments in music. It’s how the elements are put together that’s critical, and this is a ma…3 -
Re: Serifed Schwa
Thanks for your valuable comments, Tural!2 -
Re: Type Design Technical Advances
As Simon says, the internet! In particular, the Typophile site was a great place to learn and share information, and hash things out, rather than through the RW of printed documents, classes, talks, …6 -
Re: Some interesting magazine typography from 1988 .
Here’s another. Look closely and you can see how it’s full of nips and tucks—the arms of \T, for instance. It’s also printed with spot colours, the photo being a duotone of the red and blue.2 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
There is some potential for emergent, unanticipated uses of new technologies. For instance, “pseudo randomness” was not a planned feature of the OpenType spec. Similarly, there are certain areas of t…1
