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Re: Richard: A Dutch text face
Right James, if you’re going to publish a generic sans in this day and age then the quality (whatever that means) of the design is not enough to stand out from the crowd—it needs to have:Big family o…1 -
Re: R.I.P.
Don’t write off the appendix just yet—there are several theories as to its usefulness, even if these are secondary to its original function. For a typographic analogy, consider the @ symbol and #. A …2 -
Re: R.I.P.
Greenlandic K. All the boxes and arrows in WGL4. *** The danger of omitting such unnecessary characters is that some bright spark writing a layout app (or font manager) might decides that fonts won’t…1 -
Re: Tabular figs in bold+ weights
I usually try to equalize tab figure width across as many weights as possible, certainly the mid-range which might be used for body text—the classic example being financials in annual reports. But fo…5 -
Re: Richard: A Dutch text face
Jasper, I second Stephen’s opinion. I, for one, have commented on Frutiger/Myriad and Gotham/Proxima, but in general type designers do not throw their peers under the bus. That is why you may have th…8
