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Re: The Current State of Variable Fonts (End of 2018)
Price is certainly an issue. I originally conceived of Beaufort in the early ’90s as a MM typeface, before Adobe pulled the plug on that format. It had two axes—width and weight—and a separate Italic…1 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
Readability is not a science, because any of its theories can easily be falsified simply by changing the font or the type specs. Measuring the effectiveness of one typeface versus another is not scie…1 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
Readability is a pseudo-science. Type design and typography are arts.1 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
It’s promising that science and humanities faculties collaborated for this student project, but the science and design methodologies are as full of holes as Ecofont. What’s really being taught—how to…4 -
Re: An Italic for Uccello
Even more. Imagine the angled nib on the top-left-to-bottom-right strokes—because a broad-nibbed ductus is fundamental to this style, only thinned at joints. You might also try thickening the x and y…2
