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Re: An Italic for Uccello
Even more. Imagine the angled nib on the top-left-to-bottom-right strokes—because a broad-nibbed ductus is fundamental to this style, only thinned at joints. You might also try thickening the x and y…2 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
A monotone grey for body text contrast is preferable—because that way when someone looks at a whole page or a column of type the italics (or small caps) used for textual emphasis don’t jump out. They…4 -
Re: Do table figures align across weights and styles?
I often add a baseline crossbar to a sans serif tabular “1”, where there is none in the proportional.5 -
Re: An Italic for Uccello
I find it a little too refined and busy to harmonize with the robust quality of the Jenson letter forms. As has been mentioned, perhaps a little wider, and maybe make the entry strokes at the x-heigh…2 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
Small caps were used before there were bold fonts, so that contrast method has some historical baggage. I concur with John—why not give typographers the option to use both kinds of hierarchical layou…1
