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Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
Tweaked the figures. Oh, and I rather like the section sign:1 -
Re: "Helvetica Now" - "Monotype redesigns Helvetica for the digital age"
That website seems to actively avoid showing what Now looks like, hiding it behind distortions and clippings. Some old/new glyph overlays would have been nice, and a comparison of the same copy in th…4 -
Re: The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
Jacob: Thanks for the demo! BTW, you could always use EB Garamond as the base; you can modify that with impunity.I like the spurs in your large sample. They still irritate me in the running text, but…1 -
Re: The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
Certainly the spur should be of the same nature as /longs/, or failing that, /n/. For your Didot, only horizontal spurs make sense to me. I also don't see why the spur should be an offstroke rather t…2 -
Re: Regis, a new serif font
The weight and contrast look somewhat uneven to me. For instance, the /f/ is much heavier and lower in contrast than the following /g/; the /s/ and /u/ look lighter than /r/t/w/. The sharp edge in /j…1
