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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: Width proportions across weights
You ask about whether to preserve color or width proportions, but looking at your images I think an issue is that you’ve preserved contrast too much. In a conventional bold the thicks should take on …2 -
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: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
Mostly the /e/ just feels too light on top. (The problem goes away in the smaller sizes of the sample that Stephen Coles posted.)4 -
Re: Helvetica Now inconsistent terminal/finial form, e and c
There’s an important difference between imperceptible and unnoticed.1
