On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > >I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good > >design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless > >it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One doesn't notice that > > but i assume, as you were involved in lucida ot, that you know that > this font has no kerns ..
Which shows what an excellent job Bigelow & Holmes did in designing and spacing the glyphs, and it is also one of the few typefaces that does not even need f-ligatures :) > nowadays when i read some novel with excessive expansion, inter > character spacing and whatever, i always doubt it has been done by a > badly configured in-design or equally bad configured tex I have seen a couple of those books with excessive use of expansion, you notice it at glance and it becomes very irritating, so I now avoid expansion altogether (the books were in Arabic, so most probably it was InDesign). Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
