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Re: Variable fonts
With your strategy Mark, VF will erode the price of buying a complete family, in a downward spiral. Purchases will migrate to the cheaper VF. Just as OpenType fonts reduced the “price per glyph”, VF …1 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
You may recognize it, but can you put a name to it? The initial-letter prompting strategy for remembering names: Go through the alphabet letter by letter, imagining that the particular letter you’re …1 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
No, that’s not the issue I experienced, it was the justification algorithms in layout apps such as Quark and InDesign that caused the difficulty. Even with the same glyph metrics as foundry type, I f…1 -
Re: Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.
From Paul Shaw: The letters would have been filled with metal, probably bronze or lead but possibly gilded (certainly not a precious metal). And I doubt the metal letters would have been raised or be…1 -
Ancient Roman Geometric Sans.
The Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum. It looks like there were letters, likely of precious metal, fitted into the stone, held in place by pegs, the holes for which remain. The vacant letter shapes…5
