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Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Know where to start and proceed systematically. When it comes to actually creating glyphs in a tool like FontLab or Glyphs, I like to start with the structural glyphs, the ones that establish the com…7 -
Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
I might do likewise if a) I didn’t have any experience of typographic practice and b) was asked to arrange a sequence from one end to another. Of course people are going to begin that task by trying …1 -
Re: PGF-Trajanite
Yes, I meant in a stylistic way: but that was based on looking at smaller size showings of the uppercase K, where the step wasn’t really obvious. I still find this a stylistic oddity in a typeface th…5 -
Re: Looking for references of very heavy serifs with diagonal stress
I think you have understood a good principle: that the arrangement of where weight falls is more important to suggesting oblique stress than the rotation of the counter.2 -
Re: Renaissance Font Reproduction for Historical Music Notation Software
There are two separate things to consider here: 1. The musical notation system as a system, which includes vocal text when present; independent of a particular medium. 2. The way in which that notati…2