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- Survey: justified or rag-right?
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... like multiple consecutive hyphens, etc. On the other hand, they put an umlaut in "cooperate." What besides humor is OK to ... effort, because they are more determinative of, or foundational to, readability than questions of aesthetics might be. >are ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments
- Carol Twombly.. Please help me!
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... the same thing, in the opposite direction). On the other hand, it wouldn't susprise me if Twombly actually appreciates seeing her story ... Again I really do recommend Ronell's 'The Test Drive' as a foundational thought provoking book for this era. One thing I would like ...
Forum topic - softbluecries1 - 30 Mar 2007 - 8:13am - 244 comments - 0 attachments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... point sizes were? I do not have the Luidl text on hand. I made same size (100%) B&W line art scans at 600-dpi. The posted ... by the foundry? Was the sketch intended to represent foundational characters, or did someone ask for possible alternates and did ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- why is serif still used today?
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... more formal, classic. Triple bingo. On the other hand: 1) Some people use it out of pretension (although the same applies to ... is my theory that the supercession of 'slot processing' is foundational to the aquisition of fluency in reading.) I suspect serifs ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 1 Dec 2006 - 6:36am - 117 comments - 0 attachments
- Do ligatures improve readability?
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... doesn't isolate and reference clearly enough the foundational perceptual processing moment' of the sense-following ... do to make your ideas accesible the better. On the other hand as you pointed out to me, sometime jargon is needed. Where the balance is ... probably also depends on letterspacing not getting out of hand. The ratios of tollerance before the 'point' of the design is lost maybe ...
Forum topic - ebensorkin - 25 Oct 2006 - 7:52am - 130 comments - 0 attachments
- Display v. Text
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... things like empirical testing (more the older foundational stuff like retina acuity, not the flawed contemporary high-level ... and what we need is more of the same. If, on the other hand, we take a more critical look at the details of experimental design then ...
Forum topic - piccic - 13 Aug 2004 - 7:01am - 66 comments - 0 attachments
- type design & national identity: ideas for an exhibition?
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... display, which may prove limiting too. On the other other hand, the borders between Latin and other letterforms might be the very most ... or Goudy, based on his lettering. Interestingly, the "foundational" style of the US is Caslon, a British face, as that was the ...
Forum topic - eliason - 13 Apr 2006 - 10:25am - 41 comments - 0 attachments
- Student Requests/Braces for Feedback
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... it. My goal was to create a face that referred to the foundational calligraphic hand I've been learning while looking more solid and geometric in form as ...
Forum topic - mattstein - 1 Jun 2006 - 4:37pm - 7 comments - 2 attachments
- TYPO 13
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... that possible. My text as it stands represents a, for me, foundational document on which, I hope, I and others can build. But a larger ... discussion of the style of Peter's essay. On the one hand, I consider this discussion a distraction, and wonder if Peter, Kevin and ...
Forum topic - Forrest L Norvell - 12 Mar 2005 - 3:47pm - 98 comments - 0 attachments
- Type for kids
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... is that you'll find a diverse set of type choices and some hand lettering too - I don't think you'll find too much stereotypical ... vast amounts of exposure to type of all sorts. but as a foundational experience with type I am trying to find research that supports a ...
Forum topic - marc - 28 Jul 2005 - 8:06am - 41 comments - 0 attachments
