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Re: What is the current day difference between a typeface and a font?
Font in this sense derives from the French fondre which means to cast or melt (same ancestor of foundry). Etymologically different from the font (e.g. a baptismal font) that comes from the Latin for…3 -
Re: User friendly family naming
The word "text" is already overloaded with different meanings in this domain--I wouldn't suggest also using it to describe a width.3 -
Re: The design of Ŋ in high-contrast typefaces
An interesting question. Capital /Y/, while obviously not identical, offers a bent-stem precedent for the thicker option. Maybe the depth of the descenders might enter into the consideration too.1 -
Re: Amplitude - A typeface designed for airplane cockpits
/W/ is too dark. Maybe its center vertex doesn’t need to come all the way up. Consider lowering the center vertex of /M/ a little, which might help disambiguate it from an /H/. Curious, what do acron…1 -
Re: Why is 4 the magical Path Minimum Length?
Bear in mind these programs are signaling potential mistakes to check, not necessarily errors in the technical sense. E.g. there's nothing invalid about a slightly-off-vertical line. I'd guess it's j…8
