-
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Quite a few of the Emigre types can be classed as conceptual, but I might give special mention to Zuzana Licko's Base 9 and Base 12 families. Not sure if they were the first designs to base proportio…4 -
Re: Microsoft Uniscribe renderer behaviour for kerning and Arabic marks
While I am sympathetic to pointing out the limitations of particular technologies such as OpenType Layout and inconsistencies in the implementation of those technologies, if this just take the form o…2 -
Re: A clarification about kerning.
Round shapes are complicated because unless they are perfectly symmetrical you can't rely on numbers, whether measured from the horizontal extrema or at a standard height. So a letter like O needs to…2 -
Re: Is this a Gill Sans Variant?
Also, this variant of Gill Sans has always been of categorical interest, since it straddles the presumed boundary between ur Humanist and ur Geometric designs.1 -
Re: Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W
Which is why I think having the middle stroke ascend should not be considered essential, but instead a stylistic option. And linking the hairline of the left side into the top of the bowl on the righ…0
