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Re: Sans serif display fonts theory
The x-height thing has always seemed interesting to me. If you ask me, titles need a large x-height to look like a nice 'block' of text that fits comfortably in a layout, whereas small text forms blo…2 -
Re: Notes on the rendering of Garamond and Caslon typefaces when set at small sizes. Also, a request.
Given the Plantin reference, also have a look at Galaxie Copernicus1 -
Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
Aha, I see what you mean now. But to me, the two types in your top example only look aligned because they are close to each other. If I pull my focus away from the horizontal center of the image, the…1 -
Re: Proofing Kern On results - How do you review thousands of pairs?
Aren't you always manually checking to see if your kerning is good? Whether that kerning is automated or not. I would assume that it's the stage before that, the bulk of the kerning work, that is spe…2 -
Re: The future of type
As a cognitive psychologist, I would like to argue that we actually have pretty good ways of measuring such things. We could quite feasibly compare two typefaces and their emotional response in an e…4
