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... Small Capitals Sort Spine Spur Stem Stroke Stress Squoosh Swash T ... Venetian Versal Vyaz W Weight Whiteletter Word Shape Word Space Word Spacing ...
Wiki - Ken Messenger - 9 Feb 2012 - 12:32pm - 0 comments
- New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme
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... contract? In other words, do the rights of the designer stem exclusively from the EULA? Please close your CITE tag - Please ... say, a font called ‘Eurostibble’, an imaginary one-weight, unkerned font that is actually a weight of Eurostile from some “Free ...
Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments
- The Sloped Roman
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... styles (in Bringhurst's terminology), with their varied stem and stress angles, have the least consistent verticality of strokes, so ... the other mode with ital, sc, letterspacing, changes in weight, etc. A very instructive couple of pages. This book is brimfull of ...
Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments
- Commercial & Custom Pricing
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... you think about this strictly in terms of hours, or a per weight basis? For example 2 weights vs 4 weights (two masters and two ... basic spacing, but not kerning. It typically includes PS stem hinting, but obviously not manual TT hinting. Randy: Speaking of, ...
Forum topic - hrant - 8 Mar 2007 - 1:02pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... - the top join of the bowl of the 'p' to the vertical stem, and the spur that protrudes to the left. In the first case, it's ... such as this spur than, say, along the edge of a stem. With this interpretation, it should be clear that the truer shape of the ... on about what they happen to believe, throwing their weight around in an insular sandbox, not really interested in changing ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Nordic Family - an update
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... least to my opinion) and found that most of them have stem widths between 60 and 80 em. On average they are about 65 em in diameter. Is this a good 'weight' for a regular version? Is there anything you can say on that? Are ...
Forum topic - Characters - 5 Jan 2004 - 7:11am - 12 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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... from the beginning. Maybe Renner thought that the long stem on the left made the h sufficiently static anyway. Or one might argue that ... convinced him that a tapering reduction in stroke weight where bowls join stems wasn't an effect of the pen, but a necessary ...
Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments
- What are your pet peeves about common typefaces?
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... Frutiger Light is much less readable than the normal weight (Roman). Sans fonts, of course, have the problem that when there are no ... slims down poms: The way it slims down towards the stem and how the top of the bowl curves down just bugs me. It doesn't look ...
Forum topic - mwebert - 6 Sep 2006 - 3:11pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments
- UPM value of 1000 set in stone?
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... a few decorative elements, like seamless patterns for each weight, for instance, which I would like to remain seamless) Any input on ... a certain number - which can lead to rounding errors and stem weight inconsistencies. If you only want a slightly different UPM you ...
Forum topic - truecolors - 26 Feb 2008 - 7:55am - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... path(s) that lie at the centre, or spine, of the glyph's stem(s). These spines may be fleshed out by the type designer in a number of ... based on axis (or master). A pair of axis might change weight from light to bold. Another pair of axis might change condensed to ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
