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Re: Ink Bleed Simulation - Worth it?
It’s what you have to do when reviving a metal-era type design, because the accommodation of ink gain was, tacitly, part of the original design. The thing is, it’s not just “blur”, because metal type…3 -
Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
After I have drawn the Regular, I use this as a background layer over which I draw the skeleton path of the Hairline weight, with the pen tool in FontLab. For the Extra Bold, I start by beefing up th…1 -
Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
I make the Regular first. It embodies and clarifies the ethos of the typeface best, in particular stroke contrast, angle of stress and cadence (the new word for rhythm/colour—Erik Spiekermann and oth…3 -
Re: Tips for creating small caps in FontLab
Four global variables are: - height- weight - horizontal scale- spacing These are all attributes that can be adjusted fairly accurately in InDesign or Quark, by applying values to the basic capitals.…1 -
Re: Legibility
Its scientific name is “filling in” (!) Here’s a scientific paper which discusses it: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S00426989060039322
