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Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
Here's a thread from 15 years ago that mostly just demonstrates to me how glad I should be that modern font editors have slanted boxes and do the math for you, but also might explain why italics…2 -
Re: The Number sign—now and then—across languages.
In my experience, the written form when it is meant as "number" is often small and high, like an asterisk. But typographically its density asks for a larger rendering, and I think that work…1 -
Re: Critique my Wes Wilson style variable font!
Is the monospacing (or actually severely unitized spacing) necessary? Seems to me like a constraint that isn't adding value, and for this psychedelic style it feels kind of, well, square. Of the…2 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Interestingly, a 1960 recounting by Zapf indicates that it was not designed as a text face, but that potential was realized after the fact:1 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
I once wrote a pangram about someone having this exact realization: Things get even more interesting in italics, where often the lowercase z will venture a thin diagonal even when the longer slant in…2
