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Would you want this for free?

... I’m not in the market for I'm not in the market for display faces. Even though this is kind of an oddity, it has a professional ...

Forum topic - kris - 16 Jun 2007 - 9:02pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... that LHF While I realise that LHF fonts are (all?) display fonts, so quite not as much of an issue as if you were dealing with ... different for signage fonts and especially good display faces, but I think it's not, in fact, I think they are much easier to spot, ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

The MODERN BLACKLETTER

... of blackletter is that it exclusively limited to historic, display applications. Like the town museum in Wiesbaden's suburb, ... a much longer history. Also, different fraktur/blackletter faces were used during the NS regime, not only Tannenberg and its fellow ...

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

Small Capitals

... get better matched letter proportions by “faking” the display small cap with a downsized “normal” cap, but the stem widths ... case, but it is my opinion that in general, old style faces are configured like Minion and Goudy, making the use of caps/small caps ...

Wiki - DB - 13 Jan 2012 - 11:23pm - 0 comments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... and in what contexts (most significantly in terms of display versus text work). 2) What other "baggage" does each ... at typeface design. I've always been drawn to lighter faces (a child of the digital age, I suppose), but now I'm starting ...

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

FAQ Free Fonts

... No longer available? Sinel by P22. Art deco display face. Registration required. SB Basement by Selfbuildtype. ... follow-up, includes full-featured Opentype serif text faces. 20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts compiled by think design blog. ...

Wiki - Miguel Sousa - 17 Dec 2011 - 12:34am - 0 comments

Spiro 0.01 release

... don't interact (too much) couldn't one decide to display/manipulate one or two at a time? > x-height is a parameter in ... of all the parts of glyphs are more important to text faces than the exact curves, which are not so visible at text sizes. Though ...

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

What to do with my Centaur?

... fonts for each point size rather than just Text and Display variants. The early twentieth century's work of recovery, in often ... sizes. No font can maintain its feel across the display/text divide. > Neither version has anything approaching real ... Have a look at all of Textism's Twenty Faces, and you'll understand why the Classics have had a rough time in their ...

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

Shameless Type Scare Tactics Poster day. BOO!

... Can you point me Thanks Dan! Can you point me to the faces you mentioned? I would like to take a peek. ChrisL Here is a ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 31 Oct 2006 - 11:53am - 105 comments - 0 attachments

HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot

... small caps either. Perhaps because it is intended more for display than for text? Since nobody, other than Didot, has figured out ... spite of its name, is a display font. I think all of these faces have small caps. In any case, the problem isn't having small caps. ...

Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments