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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 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
The primitivist trope of fearsome cannibals in Papua New Guinea is a terrible metaphor to hang these thoughts on (even with tongue in cheek). These savage stereotypes are a legacy of colonialism that…14
