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Exclamation mark in Adobe Garamond
Posted by MatsP in
15 Nov 2011 — 9:45pm
15 Nov 2011 — 9:45pm
If anyone understands the logic behind making the width of the exclamation mark in Adobe Garamond (not Premier Pro) smaller than the width of the period, enlighten me! This obviously leads to the spacing to the following character being smaller after an exclamation mark than after a period. Rather annoying in my book. I have observed the same phenomenon with Slimbach's Utopia typeface.
Mats
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15 Nov 2011 — 10:10pm
I imagine the exclamation point was spaced optically with letters, but the period advance width was set to exactly 1/4em in order to make it exactly half the tabular figure width of 1/2em.
15 Nov 2011 — 10:25pm
Could be. It doesn't look very natural to me, anyway.
16 Nov 2011 — 4:41am
Adobe: home of too-tight punctuation. Boo.
Adobe: EULA lets the end user fix things. Yea.