Typophile - Paradigm: $9/$59 - Comments

Thanks for the

eliason — Thu, 1 May 2008 04:39:03 -0700

Thanks for the clarification.

Just for my own

Nick Shinn — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:21:04 -0700

Just for my own understanding

There are two different ways of describing figures (as represented by Quark XPress and InDesign), and I’ve mixed them up in that chart, which isn’t correct.

The icons are supposed to represent the four figure qualities:
Proportional, Tabular, Old-style, and Lining,

rather than the four instances:
Oldstyle Proportional
Oldstyle Tabular
Lining Proportional
Lining Tabular

So to indicate the four instances, I should have done this:

Just for my own

eliason — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:59:05 -0700

Just for my own understanding: are “tabular figures” and “proportional lining figures” two subsumed types of “lining figures,” or is that three different animals?

This is an interesting

marcox — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:21:24 -0700

This is an interesting pricing strategy, Nick. Hope you’ll share (at TypeCon?) the results.

Paradigm: $9/$59

Nick Shinn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:14:49 -0700

Paradigm is available from Shinntype.