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- Favorite magazine masthead (logo-type) Battle Royal
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... depressing, is a bit extreme! I find it has the opposite effect on me. I love that they went back to the original masthead from the ... flag is very nice, but having the coverlines bleed to the edge is only a trick and not very logical. Richard Doyle did the ...
Forum topic - Jem - 17 Apr 2007 - 12:55pm - 87 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... and blurred, which is counter to the visually arresting effect of a letterpress impression. A flat two-dimensional photo-reproduction ... projections such as this spur than, say, along the edge of a stem. With this interpretation, it should be clear that the truer ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Appropriate use of the ampersand
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... afraid, you are missing my point here, Pavel. The prized effect here is precisely the foreignness of the ampersand. And, of course, ... he was speaking about and give it a crass, commercialized edge (a sort of sarcastic marker, in a way, that references advertising copy). ...
Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 8:57pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments
- Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...
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... family of Handsome; one of the versions had a filter effect that roughened the path outline, adding lots of points. I can't ... assumes that the baseline of the characters is the bottom edge of the artboard, and that the characters are designed at 1/10 scale. Only ...
Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 5:02am - 62 comments - 0 attachments
- Survey: justified or rag-right?
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... having shapes and coinicidences occur at the right column edge, which can be a distraction, as the reader will interpret these as ... I agree it has a I agree it has a subconscious effect (everything does). But I doubt that justified versus rag translates to ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 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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... "clearly discernable historical antecedants" have had an effect on me when I've used Futura in the past. More than some other fonts, I ... experimenting with an angular m and n, the h had a rounded edge from the beginning. Maybe Renner thought that the long stem on the left ...
Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... The painfully simple technology we have today has a bad effect on designers because it doesn't challenge them to go to the extremes of ... with them, is as stupid as I've ever heard, but Cutting Edge Luddites have their entertaining moments don't they!? :) Is there a type ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- Shinn vs. Papazian challenge
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... btw -, in the context of a text setting, has the same effect for my eyes as an old typeface like Bodoni: vertical lines vibrate too ... preferences, I don't see how lab research provides an edge over the "wisdom" garnered over the years. Readability may have objective ...
Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 18 Dec 2009 - 11:21am - 57 comments - 0 attachments
- Sofa: a cosy typeface
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... paths: select all the characters you want your change to effect go to contour>transform>merge countours i suggest before ... "e"? It's the older one, and i like the new one with the "edge", but I'm not sure. - alternate form for the "g" (smoother loop, but not ...
Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jun 2008 - 12:28pm - 72 comments - 16 attachments
- How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
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... drafting tools) and even cutting with knife and straight edge (Rubylith, etc.). Knowing good constructing/drafting technique was ... instances of notan only with a tool, and any tool has an effect on the process. It's not a matter of prevent, not of absolutes, but a ...
Forum topic - j_polo9 - 2 Jul 2006 - 8:19pm - 181 comments - 0 attachments
