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Re: Naming font modifications
This thread isn't about updates and fixes to fonts, it is about making customised versions of fonts, i.e. versions with distinctive features and behaviours that differ from the standard version.…2 -
Re: Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?
What's missing, I think, is the care over placement and balance, the attention to graphical detail that characterises even Dadaist typography. The Gollancz covers include all the tropes of moder…3 -
Re: Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?
I wouldn't describe the design of The Intelligentsia of Great Britain as 'moderately modern'. It's a dog's breakfast of poorly conceived and executed ideas. Many of the other…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Somewhat as an aside: There have been a lot of assertions in this thread about how we — collectively or as individuals — read. I think it is important to restate what should be obvious, given that co…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
I've quite regularly heard the term neo-Kufic used to refer to typographic letters with large counters, rationalised vertical alignments, and usually fairly low contrast stroke modulation. They&…2
