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Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
As I'd draw them, oldstyle three and five descend because their bottoms look more like descenders than their tops look like ascenders. Just as with all the other oldstyle figures, the more "…2 -
Re: Small Caps Practice
It seems sensible to me to have small-cap versions of the punctuation that goes full height (!, ?, (), [], {}, quotation marks), but to have it triggered not by the regular small caps feature but rat…10 -
Re: Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
I'm not sure the /f/s are quiet enough for running text. You could keep their ascenders geometric but just tighten the radius a bit and they'd have a better shot.1 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
Oldstyle figures (at least theoretically) are more legible and groups of them make more distinct "wordshapes." And the reason to make figures tabular (i.e. monowidth)--to insure they line u…1 -
Re: Paramond — an extreme display serif
Everyone complains about /S/ but an eight is even harder to get right! An issue I see here is that the spine seems to thicken as it just starts to bend coming down at the lower right. (and maybe, bu…2
