John Hudson

  • Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.

    I don't have time to write as long a response here as I would like, but here are some thoughts: 1. When talking about colour in typography, it is important to distinguish between the use of multiple …
  • Re: Units per em

    Yes, that's right. The first version of Zapfino for Apple was very small on the body, in order to accommodate the very tall ascenders of the taller style variants. This was done in consultation with …
  • Re: Units per em

    In the case of the Slabo fonts, I tailored the UPM to each target px size, so that I would have a number that was evenly divisible by the px number to give me a grid that fit to the UPM.
  • Re: Home office vs. office

    I was admiring the camera set up at the Letterform Archive, and thinking I'd like to have one of those. Then I realise it was about half the size of my whole office.
  • Re: Units per em

    Not just legacy systems. The optimisations in the rasterisers are current for DirectWrite as well as the older GDI environments. Basically, Microsoft's view is that since the optimisations improve th…
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