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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 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
For traditional text faces, I use a simple rule: x-height + descender = cap height. Ascender height is basically stylistic, i.e. it can vary pretty freely depending on the style of type and the effec…6 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
I think it is important to bear in mind the context in which Bringhurst's book was initially written, which was that period in the early 1990s when traditional typesetting houses and the accumul…13 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
The question David's comment raises, which seems to me the really interesting question about tabular oldstyle figures, is whether their common width needs to be the same as that of the tabular l…3 -
Re: Kerning Service
I used KM kerning only once in a shipping font, when there wasn't enough budget to cover my time to manually kern. Whenever else I've tried it, I've ended up throwing out the KM kernin…6
