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Re: Type Design Technical Advances
What is different about digital fonts, that couldn’t be done before? Two things, at least, that I’ve explored. Certainly, alternate glyphs are nothing new, but they were previously manually set by ty…3 -
Re: Are there any OpenType features that are required to be user-modifiable?
<calt> is disabled by Adobe apps, when tracking exceeds certain values. Because of its origin as a connected script feature. This is really annoying for “pseudo random” effects, which one would…1 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
Further to my post of Feb. 5: Stretchy2 -
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: A Grand Romance
For truly grand, something with a small x-height. Because that means it has to be set at quite a large point size for adequate visibility, with a small character count per square cm/in. In other word…2
