... should be related to word spacing. When I first started kerning fonts, I tended to overdo it, and the apostrophe is one ... than others. So far, it's been established that simple principles can be applied to explain some of the phenomenon of reading. For ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

... comments. I think your not that far off if you describe my first group of designers. Fortunately there are not that many of them out ... viewers about your cause, while rambling vague design principles/conspiracy theories that relate to the TV spot. Man... you could ...

Forum topic - alchion - 27 Jul 2005 - 2:30pm - 128 comments - 0 attachments

... is the standard text face in English—-from the first quarter of the nineteenth century until the first quarter of the 20th. It ... (the “decorative” is not beautiful); rational principles (systematic geometry, grids) are essential; there is nothing wrong ...

Wiki - pstanley - 29 Dec 2007 - 5:46am - 0 comments

... repeats the process with the completed master from the first round as seed-image, and then thresholds the result to give a monochrome ... simulation, but you might uncover some useful information/principles nonetheless. Outline filtering: I’ve only ever done it in ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... of propaganda signes and posters? hello arina, first of all, hello arina, first of all, after what communist take over ... with political ideology, rather with the schools esthetic principles... The North Corean phenomena is also remarcable, would be ...

Forum topic - arina s. - 29 Apr 2006 - 7:00am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

How is the "Akzidenz" of "Akzidenz Grotesk" pronounced? I use it quite a bit and I feel a ... "ah-ree-ALL" and then brush my teeth. The first vowel sound in No, Euler is pronounced like English ... They are changing more often than the longlasting principles of good and readable book/newspaper design. On the other hand their ...

Forum topic - flow14 - 28 Jan 2003 - 3:16pm - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... and fine arts students taking part, most of them in their first or second years of school. The earliest this course could happen would be ... Ah, ya gotta love academe. Yes, I live there, too. The principles are often: 1. Assume the students are idiots, and treat them ...

Forum topic - Maurice Meilleur - 14 Mar 2006 - 6:04am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... see there is John Lewis’ Typography: Basic Principles , which is out of print (1966, Studio Vista) but available used... ... reading it but from what I’ve read so far (the first two) these books are absolutely indispensable to the typographically ...

Forum topic - gerald - 11 Apr 2006 - 5:03pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... in this regard, David.” Thanks John. That was my first thought but I wanted to make sure. I’m going to put what I was ... script. Unicode is guided by a number of conflicting principles, and in given situations one or more of these principles will trump ...

Forum topic - dberlow - 27 Jan 2006 - 10:53am - 87 comments - 0 attachments

... and have little or no understanding of the most basic principles of design. Powerful new software programs... give the designer (or ... Essays on Graphic Design , pub. Allworth 1994, the first of two “Looking Closer” books and highly recommended) ...

Forum topic - Rodrigue Planck - 10 Mar 2006 - 8:45pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments