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Re: MVAR fonts?
Going back to the original question, and how it relates to Amstelvar's ascender and descender axes, it's an interesting design question as to whether linespacing metrics should be variable …1 -
Re: Placing of diacritic in lc b with dot below, Dcedilla etc.
1. Optically centred. 2. Optically centred. 3. Despite character name, these are not usually cedilla form, but instead comma below. Optically centred. 4. Optically centred. 5. Either above the stem o…6 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
@"Beau Williamson" I agree with almost everything you wrote there. The idea that concepts of stroke and notan are in opposition ignores all the ways in which designers deal with both on a d…3 -
Re: Optical compensations and writing tools
Are we going to repeat every single Typophile discussion on TypeDrawers? Formal writers regularly rotate the pen or brush to write Z with a thicker downstroke: that is part of the ductus of this lett…6 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
I thought we established years ago, on Typophile, that even the most calligraphically inspired typeface design is at most parachirographic in nature, because of a) the distinctive aspects of the medi…10
