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Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
"The good type designer knows that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty. If readers do not notice the consummate reticence and rare dis…2 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
My website uses Fontdue as well, incorporated into a site I built with Webflow. The relative ease of both of those tools meant I could figure out how to design and construct it myself, which I enjoye…7 -
Re: "Scotch Rules"
I see an entry for it in a "shop talk" glossary published in Editor & Publisher, March 9, 1935, so it's at least that old. That's it's labeled as shop talk reinforces the idea that ther…1 -
Re: Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
To get really nerdy, you can even use sizecalc.com to calculate the printing size and distance. It tells us that 12 point type at 20 inches away is about .48 degrees of vision. Keeping that .48 degre…4 -
Re: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
I agree that new forms of two and three are fitting. To my eye your bold figures are a bit uneven in color (e.g. six and four look darker than five and two).2