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Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
/delta shouldn't swoop up at the top. I wonder if you could try a /xi with uneven horizontals (a thinner one in the middle). /omega should be more symmetrical, and maybe it could be skinny in the mid…3 -
Re: Naming, grouping conventions for large family
"Yeah, I tried the numbers thing, didn't catch on." -- Adrian Frutiger3 -
Re: Why is my font ugly
Joins at bottom left of /b/ and top right of /q/, with their small notches, look clunky. The other lowercase joins are working better.4 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
I suspect the Greek caps haven't changed to harmonize with the lowercase just because Latin-based typefounders have 14/24ths of the caps already at hand before they even start carving that way.2 -
Re: Helvetica Now inconsistent terminal/finial form, e and c
Orthogonal terminals are often cited as a distinguishing feature of Neo-Grotesques as a typeface classification—maybe the distinguishing feature. So it may be that our desire to have a coherent taxon…2
