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Re: WOFF Only?
And decompression. The format is tailored to a balance between file size and speed of decompression to get the webfont downloaded and displayed as quickly as possible. It's possible to make smal…4 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
Kent, I'm pretty sure that I got Tschichold's statement right, but would need to go and track down the source. Tschichold's early modernist work involved a hands-on composition method …3 -
Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
Essentially, is is about respecting the proportions of the numeral. Whenever you have a triangular shape, you have a strong dependency between height and width, which in the case of the 4 means allow…3 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
For traditional text faces, I use a simple rule: x-height + descender = cap height. Ascender height is basically stylistic, i.e. it can vary pretty freely depending on the style of type and the effec…6 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
I think it is important to bear in mind the context in which Bringhurst's book was initially written, which was that period in the early 1990s when traditional typesetting houses and the accumul…13
