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Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
I’d have it go up into the roof, not over to the wall.1 -
Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
/delta shouldn't swoop up at the top. I wonder if you could try a /xi with uneven horizontals (a thinner one in the middle). /omega should be more symmetrical, and maybe it could be skinny in th…3 -
Re: Naming, grouping conventions for large family
"Yeah, I tried the numbers thing, didn't catch on." -- Adrian Frutiger3 -
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
