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Re: Passing the Torch
Nicely done, Stephen.2 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
I’ve implemented a “caps with small caps” format on several typefaces. It’s an added value to users, in that, apart from mixed case usage, it gives them the equivalent of two matched optical sizes, w…5 -
Re: Will digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?
(First off, Industria was a pre-digital design.) I would expect some smart alec irony first—a vogue for horizontally scaled distortion and faux bolding, Papyrus and Comic Sans shedding scorn. When yo…2 -
Re: Width Reduction In Sans-serif Italic Styles
When a vertical stem is skewed, the area remains the same but the thickness decreases. So “the amount of ink on the page” remains the same, which gives the impression, en masse, of the same weight in…6 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
In sans serif designs, I often add positive kerning to the sequence r_t. Anybody else do this? I doubt it’s really necessary, as typefaces such as Helvetica and Frutiger have been creating virtual li…3
