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Magazine Redesign / Switching to a Sans-Serif

... a serifless roman right now that is designed for extended reading: Beorcana . Contact me through the typophile form if you'd like to ... pages and reading a few here and there. That is hardly immersive reading. The research that has been done has yet to give you a ...

Forum topic - TwoTwoFour - 4 Oct 2006 - 8:25am - 37 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

I'm reading Bringhurst and I came across his discussion of sloped romans and ... in fact the primary axis of differentiation, especially in immersive reading, where structural pedantisms such a deeper angle in the ... sure. But: 1) What about the -more important- immersive mechanics? No such thing happens there. 2) There's also a ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

German government, stop stealing sheep please!!!

... than using italics? Did Gill want to slow down the reading process with it? imagine an emphasized sentence, or paragraph. ... page 17), I think it simply reeks. But the case with immersive reading is different: slowing down reading for an emphasized snippet ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 31 May 2004 - 5:11pm - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Baskerville

... about its suitability as a text-font for long-distance immersive reading (see, e.g., Dean Allen's comment : "quite usable but unsuitable for ...

Wiki - pstanley - 16 Feb 2011 - 3:31am - 0 comments

Survey: justified or rag-right?

... well, I have been startled by the realization I have been reading well justified text more than once. But I don't trust most folks to ... signals like subheads stand out. This is non-immersive. > I don’t see what ‘modernist’ aesthetics ... ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments

g's anyone?

... the closed-bottom binocular "g" can cause a -minor- reading hiccup. In contrast, the only people who are really adversely affected ... not direction (which is essentially moot for immersive reading, although admittedly not for display). What's interesting ...

Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 1:21pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments

IJ-ligature fonts

... as distracting as that for something like 'st' for use in immersive reading. Ties, is that something you Ties, is that something you just ...

Forum topic - T. - 30 May 2007 - 2:13am - 131 comments - 0 attachments

The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)

... with me and show me round the typography department at Reading University. Nick, to understand what a Nick, to understand what ... manner. So paradoxically, a face designed for immersive reading still has to look good at display size. With the best of ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments

First massive x-height?

... time to time you still see it. I seem to remember reading somewhere ( Printing Types ...?) that the italic upper case didn't ... that those kind of details have a functional effect on immersive reading, whether or not they are deliberatively noticed. And ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 8:25am - 85 comments - 0 attachments

Shinn vs. Papazian challenge

... setting is a good test of that, and certainly qualifies as immersive reading. I could have taken it further, but that would have departed from ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 18 Dec 2009 - 11:21am - 57 comments - 0 attachments