I can attest to Orcutt’s book being worth reading. I learned about it from Frank Romano in a short video he made for WhatTheyThink back in 2009: http://whattheythink.com/video/37273-week-with-frank-r… (View Post)
For those who want even more info, Paul Shaw also recently wrote about this in great detail on his site: http://www.paulshawletterdesign.com/2016/11/the-definitive-dwiggins-no-15-the-origins-of-metro/ (View Post)
In an ideal world, I would say this entire site could use a redesign, with a more advanced palette of typefaces tailored for their respective roles – beefy narrow faces for headings, text-optimized f… (View Post)
I should also mention that the system-level smoothing threshold in OS X can be overridden in Safari and Chrome by changing the CSS -webkit-font-smoothing setting to none (details on that here). When … (View Post)