John Hudson

  • Tiro Typeworks is hiring a font maker

    After twenty-four years as a two-person shop, often working with associate (external) designers — all of which will continue —, Ross and I have decided it's time to also hire someone for a full-time …
  • Re: 656565656

    Yes. Unless your brief is to design for a specific output device or condition, it is better to proof at the high end, simply because there is too much variation in the low and medium end. Of course, …
  • Re: 656565656

    What's going on is that overshoot is intended to provide a general optical adjustment between flat and rounded forms within a narrow band of space. So typically there isn't a lot of variation in prec…
  • Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

    Right, but the point of control characters is that they don't need to be displayed under normal circumstances, and hence don't require glyphs to be present in the font. The soft-hyphen in a document …
  • Re: 656565656

    Does it bother you? If so, do something about it. But bear in mind that the optical effect may be due to multiple factors, so mi inclination is only to fiddle with actual overshoot amounts after all …
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