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Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
Thanks for posting this. Your method is a bit surprising to me in two ways. First your approach starts from the micro level out instead of the macro level in (i.e., shapes dictating the space used in…2 -
Re: Untitled serif, student type design
That's a widespread, longstanding, and sound method for which no embarrassment is warranted!1 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
As I'd draw them, oldstyle three and five descend because their bottoms look more like descenders than their tops look like ascenders. Just as with all the other oldstyle figures, the more "…2 -
Re: Small Caps Practice
It seems sensible to me to have small-cap versions of the punctuation that goes full height (!, ?, (), [], {}, quotation marks), but to have it triggered not by the regular small caps feature but rat…10 -
Re: Untitled Grotesk
For the A bar, it might help to think of the decision not as height of the black bar, but rather the proportions of the white spaces above and below it. From that perspective you now have a regular b…2
