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Re: Family x-Height
OK for the italics (and certain letters) but that Bold with a smaller x-height looks bad.1 -
Re: Weird font choice
Ehm… At any rate, you can always think about “dystopian” futures. There’s plenty of room for that, especially if one keeps swaying between fatalism and un-lifelikeness. :)1 -
Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
You can keep the contrast, to a desired degree. The smallest point sizes Bodoni used kept a certain contrast. Obviously inking and printing decrease it, but that’s how you actually experienced the t…2 -
Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
Not at all. It’s closely based (in fact, even too closely, as it preserves print imperfections from the books) on the same point sizes of Bodoni faces they gathered in Parma. If it was cleaned up a …3 -
Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
What I find curious in Hoefler's approach is that he chose to keep the x-height the same, even in the smaller sizes. The /D/ is almost narrower in the 6pt master, I wonder why.3
