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Re: Letter-fitting and spacing research
Hi Nate. Thinking about this some more, I think the main problem with your test is that it is simply too arduous. There is too much text to look at. Presenting text in long pararaph blocks makes the …1 -
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
The trouble I have with S/M/L—apart from the same localisation issues as prescriptive labels such as Caption/Text/Subhead/etc.—is that it doesn’t actually capture anything like the useful range of op…2 -
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
Claudio, it helps to remember that there are two different ways of grouping 'families' in OpenType: one way, corresponding to name table ID 1, groups into traditional 4-style families—Regular, Italic…4 -
Re: Letter-fitting and spacing research
I tried, and got about halfway through the second page before I gave up. I flagged what I thought were a few missing cap-to-lowercase kerning pairs in the first page, but as I went on I found myself …3 -
Re: The Silcrow is currently my nemesis
I usually align the height optically with the bottom of the tail of the Q (and the J if it is descending), which is usually a bit less deep than the lowercase descenders. And the section sign and par…4
