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Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
Yes, Rodchenko barely admits it in the poster above. The best that can be said is that its small size harmonizes with the tiny kink that distinguishes K from H, and the little pointed “v” of M. The c…2 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Well Abi, as we’re talking about Goudy, he is well known as a late starter and was still breaking new ground in his ’40s and beyond—he was 46 when his first “signature” style, Kennerley, was publishe…4 -
Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
As a “semi serif” style, this typeface emphasizes that those dangly bits on /De and /de are not descenders, but serifs. Indeed, one finds their complete absence in much sans serif poster lettering of…7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
The integration of large amounts of kerning into digital fonts has a bearing on proportion. The reason that L and T are so very narrow in Futura is to smooth out all-cap text colour, when no kerning …7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
To return to the idea of tacit proportion. So often, type designers present their working designs at Typedrawers as alphabets. Now, if you have some experience in designing type, you can look at such…4
