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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 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
If this were Facebook, the challenge would be to post one’s “top ten” list.2 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
In conceptual art, the idea is more important than the execution. Applying the same distinction to fonts may not work quite so well, but at least, if the basic idea of the font, its sine qua non, can…2 -
Re: Favorite ultralight diacritical marks
Here are a couple of ideas, suggested by the headline style of Paris Match, 1964. 1. A font that removes diacritics, as a stylistic set. 2. Horizontal line that represents acute, grave and circumflex…3 -
Re: Random glyph variation to mimic handwritten font
I don’t know how the <rand> supporting layout apps work to do that, but I doubt it has the effect which we desire, which is the non-repetition of identical glyphs for the same character, in clo…2
