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- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... even wider, heavier and have longer serifs than the 9pt capitals. The small caps compensation is different (generally stronger) ... in a family (rather than listing 40 stub styles with square brackets around the styles that aren't present in the family, which is ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces
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... influenced by black letter latin scripts. However in the square script with the opposite contrast from latin--heavy horizontals and ... quite a few round elements, depending. Especially in the capitals, but also sometimes in y's or decorative elements or the round-r that ...
Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments
- Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing
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... in Futura for Jan Tschichold, i.e. the proportions of the capitals--and that was too close to the Nazi taste. (Although he did say that ... of European scripts is composed of triangle, circle and square.' He uses this quote from Typografie als Kunst twice ...
Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments
- Perrin OT
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... someone named Claude on a fonts newsgroup that the Titling capitals were derived from the work of Louis Perrin (The Lyons ... r, but I will take a look at it and try to improve it. The square brackets are indeed too thin. I have not edited them in a long time and ...
Forum topic - nepenthe - 8 Nov 2004 - 8:37pm - 49 comments - 0 attachments
- What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?
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... Does anyone have comments about the height of accents over capitals? It's little things such as have been mentioned here, which are ... as does Gill, and others like Formata look regimented and square in text sizes. Gill's weight progression is bizarre; the mismatch of ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments
- Worth working on?
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... mark could be more in character. - I like smallish capitals, but for small point sizes I think it will backfire, especially in ... could use more flourish. -The Yen is too dark. -Your square brackets are too light compared to the parens and curlies. -The Bar is ...
Forum topic - pille - 20 Apr 2004 - 12:55pm - 39 comments - 0 attachments
- Cpsp feature
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... The cpsp feature just shall make the text that is set in capitals or small capitals more legible. If the user wants to drag attention ... lowercase in my Titling Alternatives so its back to square one and the Cpsp feature will be useful again! ...did you invent ...
Forum topic - charles_e - 29 Apr 2005 - 11:49am - 19 comments - 0 attachments
- Archive through November 08, 2004
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... land as a result of WWII; you can annihilate all Arab capitals with nuclear missiles and the US will look the other way, in the end; ... I believed that the right or wrong of who occupies what square mile of the Middle East was determined by appeal to scripture or other ...
Forum topic - raphaelfreeman - 5 Nov 2004 - 5:58am - 60 comments - 0 attachments
- Newt, fmrly. Salamander, feat. Greek
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... typeface. The trouble with the 'a' is that the top is too square; it may be fixed by exaggerating those curves rather than toning them ... to spacing and such, and I also thinned out the italic capitals a little bit to match the lowercase, whereas I also almost ...
Forum topic - Number3Pencils - 28 Jun 2007 - 2:32pm - 39 comments - 6 attachments
- Trajan
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... is an attempt to add a lowercase to the classical roman square capitals. Adobe's Trajan is an all caps alphabet. Small capitals take ...
Wiki - Dunwich Type - 17 Nov 2008 - 7:12am - 0 comments
