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Re: What is the proper name to give to each Weight? — TyMS WEIGHTS (#TW) THESIS.
To me “semi” or “demi” doesn’t mean “a little lighter than...”, it means “partway between Regular and...” So if you’re going to have a semi-light I’d expect it to be heavier than Light; and “semi-med…10 -
Re: What is the proper name to give to each Weight? — TyMS WEIGHTS (#TW) THESIS.
Overall color of a typeface is set not by the thickness of stems alone, but by the proportions of black and white. A condensed “gaspipe” style O with a thickness of x% of height will read as heavier …5 -
Re: Oldstyle numbers by default?
What font editor are you using? In the ones I've worked in, you can just draw oldstyle glyphs in the /one, /two, /three, etc. slots, then furnish lining figures with the appropriate suffixes.3 -
Re: let's talk Greek kai symbol
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Re: Industrial typefaces
I thought of that analogy too, but "industrial" music is really a post-industrial phenomenon and its medium of sublime dissonance and noise is really almost opposite the stresses on functio…2
