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Re: Help us study letter spacing: a 30–60 minute online study
Spacing and kerning appear to be low-hanging fruit for those wishing to use AI to automate the type design process, absorbing the acquired taste of experienced practitioners. Rather like how some sci…3 -
Re: How does a typeface "sparkle"?
The opposite of sparkle is dull, like Helvetica. Pardon me, neutral.2 -
Re: Fractions
I usually make all my fractions the same width. I suspect this is because I once designed a few recipe books. In many typefaces, I include half, quarters, eighths and thirds as pre-composed nut fract…5 -
Re: About spaces
To a minor extent, I would say. Eyeballing is, instead, an exercise in personal taste, reacting to a “model” that has changed dramatically in recent years, and continues to do so. There are many rece…15 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
We named our daughter Zoë, because that’s the way it’s traditionally spelled in English. At least, since it first became used in England in the 1850s.1
