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Re: Is There Such a Thing as a Crystal Goblet?
The thing that strikes me about the crystal goblet metaphor — or, indeed, the window metaphor — is the lack of a need for any metaphor to state that good typography does not interfere with or distrac…7 -
Re: Semi bold, Semibold, Semi-bold, Semi-Bold, or SemiBold?
Both demi and semi originally implied half, but that meaning seems to me to cling more to demi; ergo, Demibold suggests to me a weight mathematically, in some sense, halfway between Regular and Bold.…1 -
Re: Semi bold, Semibold, Semi-bold, Semi-Bold, or SemiBold?
Although I agree that semibold is a weight concept in itself, I find that in larger fonts with lots of weight variants using camel case consistently aids selection in font menus by highlighting what …5 -
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: 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
