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Re: Overshoot and Slab Serifs
If I don't measure, wouldn't it be too easy to get inconsistent overshoots from one letter to another - or is that acceptable? It's acceptable. There are obvious ones where you'd want them to match, …1 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
Maybe that spacing paradigm could involve a geometry layer, a bit like collision meshes in video games. In a game, if you have a complex mesh and you need to check it for the purpose of the real-time…3 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
I don't know know how to propose this, formally into something that would work on a wiki page but here's what I'd like to see. I think an important capability currently missing in the OpenType format…4 -
Re: Question from a (sort of) newbie
Treat those first glyphs with the care you'd put into a logo. For display fonts, I'll often start with a capital R and lowercase d and really fine tune them before going any further. Don't wait too l…4 -
Re: Please suggest typefaces for my talk on contextual alternates
I don't know if this counts: http://typodermicfonts.com/numbers-with-rings/ The first letter (optional) is a solid zero-width shape. The second letter, the ring, is a container which determines the n…1