[Legibility is the degree at which glyphs and vocabulary are understandable or readable based on appearance.]
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Design concept
Brioni Sans is an elegant, humanist sans serif typeface suitable for both body and display text. It has been designed to complement Brioni , a serif typeface, but obviously it works well with other typefaces, or even on its...
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Design concept
All the characters of Fedra Mono share the same widths, which makes it suitable for tabular setting when the layout benefits from vertical alignment of the characters. Typical examples would be spreadsheets, computer code, or...
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Design concept
Fedra Sans reflects the original design brief: it humanises the communicated message and adds simple, informal elegance. An important criterion was to create a typeface which works equally well on paper and on the computer...
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Design concept
Fedra Sans Alt was born out of curiosity what will happen when all ‘features’ of Fedra Sans would be removed. It relies on a subtler means of construction of typefaces, and hopes that the identity of the typeface...
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Design concept
Fedra Sans Screen was designed to work equally well on paper and on the computer screen. A contemporary sans serif typeface developed for visual identities, designed to work equally well on paper and on the computer screen....
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Design concept
Fedra Serif is a multilingual contemporary serif typeface with each style supporting over 90 languages including Greek polytonic and Cyrillic. Fedra Serif A is a low-contrast version with short ascenders and descenders...
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Font hinting
Hinting, or screen optimising, is the process by which TrueType or PostScript fonts are adjusted for maximum readability on computer monitors. This text compares different ways of hinting (black & white, grey-scale, ClearType, DirectWrite), and...
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Experimental typography. Whatever that means.
An epistemology of the word ‘experimental’ as it applies to design and type, contrasted with its scientific connotations. Examples of past and current design, type and reading/language, as well as scientific experiment, are taken into account.
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New Faces (abstract): type design in the first decade of device-independent digital typesetting (1987-1997)
The abstract for Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.
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New Faces (Chapter Two: The West Coast)
The second chapter of Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.
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