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Re: Two thoughts about Google after Typographics
Several times, I have been asked to do this by clients, and it has never been a happy experience: missing characters, incorrectly named and encoded glyphs, wrong diacritic shapes, broken and incorrec…1 -
Re: Kris Sowersby's "Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry"
This seems very much a matter of perspective, and not necessarily of perspectives that are inflexible. It is entirely possible for two intelligent and thoughtful observers to look at the same typefac…12 -
Re: WOFF Only?
And decompression. The format is tailored to a balance between file size and speed of decompression to get the webfont downloaded and displayed as quickly as possible. It's possible to make smal…4 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
Kent, I'm pretty sure that I got Tschichold's statement right, but would need to go and track down the source. Tschichold's early modernist work involved a hands-on composition method …3 -
Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
Essentially, is is about respecting the proportions of the numeral. Whenever you have a triangular shape, you have a strong dependency between height and width, which in the case of the 4 means allow…3
