P's & Q's
Are my eyes crooked or are the descender of q’s slightly shorter then that of the p’s? It is quite striking with strong serifs such as slab serifs. Try Clarendon for exemple and tell me if you also see this!
Are my eyes crooked or are the descender of q’s slightly shorter then that of the p’s? It is quite striking with strong serifs such as slab serifs. Try Clarendon for exemple and tell me if you also see this!
25.Jan.2006 12.07pm
Do you mean even if the “q” has full double serifs?
Sample?
hhp
25.Jan.2006 2.28pm
Clarendon certainly looks even to me, and in FontLab, the descenders are equal. Are you by any chance looking at this on-screen, where hinting might be screwed up?
25.Jan.2006 3.21pm
Apparently it’s my eyesight. Some poeple see the “p” shorter than the “q”.
—Do you mean even if the “q” has full double serifs?
Yes
—Are you by any chance looking at this on-screen
No, I was looking at print outs. Maybe I need some descenders correcting glasses!
26.Jan.2006 11.02am
Hey, maybe it’s due to the bowls of “p”/”q” being different
in designs with stroke stress and/or chirographic ductus?
Except that’s not the case in Clarendon...
hhp