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Re: A new approach to spacing?
It's worth taking a moment to consider what this means, given that, at least in my experience, a font is a particular instance of a typeface and seldom represents a final statement. Typefaces ge…3 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
Yes, not least a convenient interface with which to quickly judge whether one wants to rely on this tool for spacing or not. I am reminded of a comment that Eliazer Kohen, the inventer of OpenType ma…1 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
Not necessarily. You are presuming that the action of manually setting a desired distance for key pairs means fixing how that distance is achieved in the eventual spacing/kerning. Again, I'm tal…1 -
Re: To become a type designer?
Nothing wrong with calligraphy courses or any other kind of lettering courses, so long as one develops an understanding of how typographic letters differ from written ones. This is mostly a matter of…2 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
What I've hoped for, Simon, is something like this as an interface to an auto-spacing algorithm, in which the kind of adjustments you demonstrate here become constraints on the algorithm. Basica…4
