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lack of small-cap height lining numerals

... except for all-caps setting). * FYI, all your base are belong to us. hhp “designer interprets these "designer ... in one kind (either hybrid or lining). MTF are usually monospace but can be just lining or also have an oldstyle set. Finally, UCF are ...

Forum topic - jlt - 30 Apr 2007 - 8:04pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments

Fonts that typify a decade

... Arcadia, etc.) 90's : Trixie 00's : Zuzana Licko's Base Monospace http://www.fontscape.com/explore?7CM > > ...

Forum topic - pixelpyro - 4 Apr 2006 - 12:38pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments

Software Developer - the pleasant monospace

... to its editor formatting, although it limits you to one base type family at once for some reason. This would be an interesting ... of 'at a glance' distictions made possible by the use of monospace when coding but I don't recall them in detail. I am feverishly ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 1 Feb 2007 - 5:51pm - 59 comments - 1 attachment

Emigre Magazine

... #35: Mouthpiece Emigre #36: Mouthpiece 2 Base 9 and 12 by Zuzana Licko Blockhead by John Hersey ... Too Emigre #44: Design as Content Base Monospace by Zuzana Licko Hypnopaedia by Zuzana Licko ...

Wiki - Conor - 30 Jun 2007 - 8:01am - 0 comments

The latest in Microsoft's Segoe Saga - from Le Times

... Myriad would, we may suppose, be found infringing. In the base weight, there are a few characters that are different from Frutiger, and ... transparent text fonts seemed to exist in the bitmap, monospace days, real triumphs of style and getting the most out of the least. ...

Forum topic - billtroop - 19 Mar 2006 - 9:04pm - 125 comments - 0 attachments

What design considerations are primary in the design of the 'bar' glyph?

... Quite a bit higher ( Fago, Consolas ). Sometimes the base of it isn't lower than a descender, ( Fago, Ronnia) Sometimes it's exactly ... how this glyph is used. What about if the design is a Monospace. How does that impact things? At the moment it's seems utterly ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 18 Dec 2006 - 5:19pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

The good ship Notanic

... the shape Scala's a is quite bembo-ish. Then there is the Monospace. I threw this in because it illutrates an modern but opposite ... Is the best place to look for good notan in the base character or in the character in its environment (as per William’s ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 7 Nov 2006 - 4:18pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments

Quintessential American font?

... in appearance. Many of Licko's designs, such as Matrix and Base, have this quality. So these two leading proponents, Slimbach and ... Italian and French? = David Randolph Koski = Monospace fonts surely Monospace fonts surely predate computers, well except ...

Forum topic - chadbrewer - 24 May 2005 - 8:37pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

Sans faces and kerning

... faces without kerning. The first one I've in my mind is Base Monospace. I can maybe do not understand what no kerning means. There is ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 29 Sep 2005 - 3:38pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

New font working title: 'Software Developer'

... seems too wide. Could be the tail. Being that this is monospace, some of my critique could be useless. Could you set some more ... odd, but this combination doesn't occur too often. _J_ base seems too wide _s_ is falling backwards The letters with a little ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 9 Sep 2005 - 4:22pm - 71 comments - 10 attachments