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Re: Type design hot takes
Optical size should be considered fundamental and be a more available axis than weight. All currencies should forgo symbols and just use letter abbreviations. Type designers worry too much about avoi…9 -
Re: Touching serifs or good spacing?
Another option would be contextual alternate forms for the trailing glyph--much less work than ligatures. That's what I'd do here, because that little bit is really irksome.2 -
Re: Legible type design literature/scolars
Matthew Lukiesh at General Electric and, more recently, Kevin Larson at Microsoft might be good leads.2 -
Re: Subs, sups and ordn lookup
I suppose in a sense putting them at the same height accomplishes the differentiation I describe, since the center of gravity is lower for lowercase forms than for full-(superscript-)height figures.3 -
Re: Subs, sups and ordn lookup
My intuition would be that ordinals should be read more "inline" so shouldn't poke up above cap height (very much), while superiors like footnote references should be higher—more "remo…1
