Just for my own understanding: are “tabular figures” and “proportional lining figures” two subsumed types of “lining figures,” or is that three different animals?
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:
28.Apr.2008 12.21pm
This is an interesting pricing strategy, Nick. Hope you’ll share (at TypeCon?) the results.
28.Apr.2008 12.59pm
Just for my own understanding: are “tabular figures” and “proportional lining figures” two subsumed types of “lining figures,” or is that three different animals?
30.Apr.2008 10.21pm
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:
1.May.2008 4.39am
Thanks for the clarification.