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Re: Variable fonts with non-conventional axes
The intent seems to be to politicize form, by means of suggesting that the spectrum of possibilities along a variable design axis corresponds to the spectrum of human cultural identities such as gend…1 -
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: Book, Regular, Medium
If you missed the post (above) with the link to my short Quora essay, here is the text: “Book” was traditionally (in metal) an exceedingly rare style designation. I was only ever aware of it as refer…4 -
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: 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
