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Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
I don’t think one should follow national “models” slavishly. It’s more important to consider difficult situations in the particular typeface one is working on. For instance, the sequence í_l in Ferna…3 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Having designed the character in a variety of genres, I’ve come to the conclusion that what works best in most is the Flat-top Dresden (e.g. in Sense, bottom right), with the Leipzig (e.g. in Goodchi…5 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
True, but isn’t the very idea of oldstyle German type an anachronism? Weren’t all historic German types of the XVI–XVIII centuries in the Fraktur style? So now, they might be compared with a similar …2 -
Re: New Open Source Font by Production Type: Spectral
It helps that a new typeface looks good when the glyphs are closely inspected up large, even if the intended usage is small. That’s because one purposively forms one’s impression of where it fits in …1 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
No. I’m saying that type needs to breathe, and fonts in which gaps are closed up—which is the majority of kerning—have the air sucked out of them. Also, consider the default (above) of Helvetica, com…5
