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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 -
Re: The origins of letter-spaced justification
I will have a look in Frank Romano’s The History of Phototypesetting—there may be something in there, although not immediately apparent from the index. What I find fascinating is the perception, in 1…2 -
Re: Where to place special characters in a font
The good news: In any application with a “glyphs” palette (nothing to do with the font editor), a group of arrows will be easy for users to find. Characters such as the primes are much harder to loca…1
