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Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
I’ve created suites of sans and serif, designed to work together, but I don’t believe in transforming one into the other. That goes against the principle of contrast. My biggest concern is that they …3 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I stopped putting Panose values in fonts when I realized that those which FontLab generates automatically can cause mistakes, as some layout applications use this data for things like weight, rather …1 -
Pseudo-random distress: a redundancy?
If the purpose of display type style is, more so than body text, to signify a certain kind of tonality (such as artistic), then ironically, mimicking an “organic” process defeats that purpose, becau…5 -
Re: Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com
The web site appears to be missing a picture of you sporting deerstalker, cape and meerschaum.8 -
Re: Please list your favorite foreign looking Latin fonts
An image search for “chop suey font” will deliver many! ** I’ve always liked Ernst Schneidler’s Legende of 1937, perhaps because it is more connotative than denotative… subtle and evocative, rather t…6
