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... Cap Height Cap-line Case Centre Stroke Chancery Chirography Chuffed cicero ... Contrast Counter Crossbar Cross Stroke Cursive D Descender Diacritical ...

Wiki - Ken Messenger - 9 Feb 2012 - 12:32pm - 0 comments

Univers

... is a neo-grotesque sans serif; it features optically even stroke weights and a large x-height to improve legibility. It’s become known ...

Wiki - negativespace - 9 Feb 2012 - 11:53am - 0 comments

Miso

... I like the regular and bold because they're true to the stroke you get from an ISO stencil traced with a technical pen. That's just my ... look too skinny. Any suggestions on how? Vary the stroke width on those letters a bit. You could make the variations abstract, or ...

Forum topic - mårten - 9 Jan 2006 - 12:40pm - 29 comments - 1 attachment

The MODERN BLACKLETTER

... implementing it. The same with many other things, like stroke contrast. Legato has it, but certainly not because Evert was a fan of ...

Forum topic - Hannah - 26 May 2006 - 9:52pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... italic is narrower than the roman, but has the same stroke widths (1 pixel) and letterspacing (2 pixels). This ... the two are: (1) a steeper slope and greater stroke angularity in Prensa, (2) the two- (Harrier) vs. ...

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

Spiro 0.01 release

... me, but there are lots of features of FontLab I miss, like stroke offset that isn't horribly buggy, Python scripting, a sane UI for ... me, but there are lots of features of FontLab I miss, like stroke offset that isn’t horribly buggy, Python scripting, a sane UI for ...

Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments

What to do with my Centaur?

... shows clear evidence of Benton-style optical scaling with stroke offsets in addition to the fact that different pattern plates were ...

Forum topic - raph - 18 Jun 2007 - 12:07pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

Small release of several python scripts

... The smart These are great. The smart generate font is a stroke of genius. Remove those pesky overlaps while preserving your original. I ...

Forum topic - benkiel - 28 Jan 2006 - 4:20pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

Typeface classification

... with an emphasis on legibility and gently modulated stroke widths derived from calligraphy. I think the archetypal humanist sans is ... Century: rational, legible forms, low contrast, consistent stroke widths (although neo-grotesques aren't generally monoline), ...

Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

(x) Thin stressed geometric sans in Another Magazine - Fashion Thin (proprietary face) {Mike F}

... In fact, it might be Peignot Light with a white stroke added. - Lex Brilliant guess, Lex. I got Brilliant guess, ... email a few days ago and never even imagined the negative stroke. They are both really close. They are both really close. Peignot ...

Forum topic - rakai - 27 Jun 2006 - 11:27am - 25 comments - 3 attachments