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Re: Ridiculous Sans
You’re mixing metaphors. The curvaceous letters with their deep traps and mid twentieth century ad lettering style feel organic and lively. But the straight letters like k, v,w, y, and z evoke brutal…1 -
Re: 'A typeface a day' week.
It would be good marketing to take your long recordings, cut them down to time-lapse videos, and post them to YouTube.2 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I have never met a graphic designer who has even heard of PANOSE (or at least never mentioned it). Nor has anyone ever complained to me about not having PANOSE values in my fonts.6 -
Re: Classifying Cambria
Medium contrast with vertical stress and bracketed slab serifs = clarendon.2 -
Re: The design of Ŋ in high-contrast typefaces
In modern designs I use the thickness of the J and treat it as a continuation of the diagonal. Giving it the hairline stroke of the vertical looks weird to me, more like a degenerate swash than part …1
