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Re: Can you help me with my super picky typeface search?
Looser spacing is better for legibility in running text. A lot of sans serif types were originally designed for larger sizes—notably, Frutiger was designed for airport signage—, and when digitised we…2 -
Re: Is there any tool you can use to look at the final ordering the glyphs after shaping Engine has done
The OTM Text Viewer tool is quite useful for examining the interaction of individual layout features with the shaping engine, but it doesn’t provide the kind of information @"WAY KYI" is se…1 -
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
