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Re: Paramond — an extreme display serif
Only the thin looks interesting to me. The value of the structure of those letters is in their elegance, which is enhanced by the thin weight and compromised by both heavy weight and monolinearity.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 "rigi…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: Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
I'm not sure the /f/s are quiet enough for running text. You could keep their ascenders geometric but just tighten the radius a bit and they'd have a better shot.1 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
Oldstyle figures (at least theoretically) are more legible and groups of them make more distinct "wordshapes." And the reason to make figures tabular (i.e. monowidth)--to insure they line u…1
