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Re: Width Reduction In Sans-serif Italic Styles
When a vertical stem is skewed, the area remains the same but the thickness decreases. So “the amount of ink on the page” remains the same, which gives the impression, en masse, of the same weight in…6 -
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: 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 -
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?
To give a post-modern interpretation: Comic Sans may be considered a conceptual font not because it was conceived as such by its designer, but because of how people have used it. For instance, it bec…2
