... my “recipe”. 1. Start with a really high resolution scan. I almost invariably use 2400 dpi. 1a. Use as many ... it come to pre-Baskerville types, which were printed with coarse inks and uneven height-to-paper. You have regularized the base ...

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

... from Photoshop to FontLab on Windows, I get a nice full-resolution image in the background. But when I do the same on OSX I get an extremely coarse image. What gives? hhp ‹ subs vs sinfs: what's the ...

Forum topic - hrant - 9 Mar 2006 - 11:04am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... definite information is captured there about extent (and coarse but accurate information about internal composition as well—too coarse to spark visual wordform resolution and a sense of perceptual connectedness with the words on paper, but ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 19 Oct 2005 - 3:51am - 116 comments - 0 attachments

... am able to see text as texture and glyphs as being fine to coarse droplets of ink. My views on typography are both right brain and ... and independant cue-value at the microscale of wordform resolution. Professionally-set well-printed pages set in Smeijer’s ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 24 Sep 2005 - 7:04am - 75 comments - 0 attachments

... you print, the em square is mapped to whatever the dpi resolution (“density”) is. If you print 12 point type at 600 dpi, ... about this Mac 72 dpi assumption. This seems awfully coarse by modern monitor standards. My 19” CRT monitor is set at 1600 ...

Forum topic - oribendor - 31 Aug 2005 - 6:28am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... those logos that will benefit from the loud colors and the coarse resolution of TV monitors. In other words, BJ didn't help the argument by ...

Forum topic - rotodesign - 3 Dec 2003 - 11:06am - 54 comments - 0 attachments

... early typefaces betray a fascination with low-resolution output, being outline font versions of the fonts then in use on ... by typographers. Fonts Designed 1985 "Coarse Resolution" Modula Modula Round 1986 ...

Wiki - Forrest L Norvell - 10 Jul 2005 - 3:41pm - 0 comments