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Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
As a “semi serif” style, this typeface emphasizes that those dangly bits on /De and /de are not descenders, but serifs. Indeed, one finds their complete absence in much sans serif poster lettering of…7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
The integration of large amounts of kerning into digital fonts has a bearing on proportion. The reason that L and T are so very narrow in Futura is to smooth out all-cap text colour, when no kerning …7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
To return to the idea of tacit proportion. So often, type designers present their working designs at Typedrawers as alphabets. Now, if you have some experience in designing type, you can look at such…4 -
Re: Æthelflæd
What about the libretto for the audience to read, to help them follow what’s being sung? Perhaps that’s what is being discussed here.1 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
My success, after many years of relative failure in getting my designs published as rub-down or phototype, was the result of being the right person in the right place at the right time, and being par…1