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Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
P.S. A Didone/Bodoni is also probably not the best genre to use to learn, IMO. It is elegant but also is quite rigid. Not by chance, ITC when did the new Bodoni with optical sizes in the 1990s, took …2 -
Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
Even when dealing with a new design, the best thing is to look at actually printed samples in actual point sizes (keeping into account that ink will have spread a lot more in the smaller sizes). And …1 -
Re: Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
P.S. Note also the changing position of the middle horizontal stem across weights.1 -
Re: I know how to start. But I don't know when to finish.
I think there are two important elements: one would be to set a goal, and to strive by any means not to stray away from it. And then I believe that the typeface should be tested, also in intermediate…2 -
Re: I know how to start. But I don't know when to finish.
I tried to give some, but it escalated quickly in “pop philosophy”. :D1
