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Re: Type design hot takes
This week, I have been reading a book set in Adobe Caslon and it reminded me that the problem I have with the Th ligature is not its existence but that it is too tightly compressed horizontally: the …4 -
Re: Digital strategy for "luxury" fonts
If we want to talk about exclusivity in the context of typefaces and fonts, that is something that is meaningful, because typography is a voice and customers often want a distinctive voice, one that …5 -
Re: Digital strategy for "luxury" fonts
There is a casual use of the term ‘luxury’ that applies to anything that isn’t a necessity (often alongside failure to consider what constitutes a ‘need’ except in the most basic sense of shelter, cl…3 -
Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
I am guessing that Nick is referring to the way in which the distance of the baseline from the top of the text frame is generally determined by metrics that are not standardised across font families,…3 -
Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
Yes, the extrema recommendation is partly to enable this quick and easy calculation of an accurate bounding box, but the other important reason for it has been hinting.1
