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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 -
Re: A Grand Romance
Although it would be possible to normalize them somewhat in a layout program: <Baseline shift> to remedy \3 and \5, and <Vertical Scale> for \0, \1 and \2. Or swipe the figures from a dif…1 -
Re: A Grand Romance
Yes, that’s the one. Look at the crossbar of \f, the “too-high” \3 and \5!1
