... In Creative Suite 2 , we have a rousing debate about the merits of the "optical kerning" feature of InDesign (which is ... have enough Mono material to judge -- I've studied Centaur very carefully, but I certainly wouldn't consider it a better ...

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

... revival of Griffo’s last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... Hmmm, what do you think of Bruce Rogers and Centaur? Rogers doesn’t have a scary avatar so feel free to be ...

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

... inquisite (you’ve gotta learn somehow). There are the obvious reasons: Garamond is everywhere, and it wasn’t designed to be ... then a ’look at me’ one. Also consider Centaur - it Also consider Centaur - it definitely has the elegance and ...

Forum topic - lolorelei - 11 Apr 2006 - 8:54am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... tend to have a great variety of different slants to the letters. Does making them more uniform help readability, or not? Do wider ... and italic are from different people. I see that Centaur’s italic doesn’t have the flare, so perhaps this is ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 20 Jan 2006 - 1:26pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... I’m in email contact with Patricia Cost, the author of the excellent Printing History article on the Bentons and ATF, ... looks wrong. And, indeed, if you look at Monotype (metal) Centaur, there’s little or no anamorphic scaling across the size range. ...

Forum topic - raph - 24 Feb 2006 - 11:48am - 15 comments - 0 attachments

How do people decide whether to make the head-serifs on a lc “u” flat or angled? hhp ‹ ... there are some that have different angles, different sizes/types (full and half) of serif and some have a chirographic lefthand serif. My ... If you look carefully at the optical scaling of (real) Centaur, you’ll see that the left head-serif has a much steeper angle in ...

Forum topic - hrant - 2 Jan 2006 - 3:14pm - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... Prelim. Crit Ledbury › George, this looks good, the George, this looks good, the forms are very lively. I like the ... Goudy; I particularly like its subtle, angular Jenson (Centaur, really) influence. Overall, it’s a rather successful design, ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 21 Dec 2005 - 10:28am - 59 comments - 1 attachment

... I’m just looking to expand my knowledge and this is the best place I could think of to ask this. -Dave ‹ Please ... balance the hanging serif on the initial. Letterpress Centaur was a good choice for a fine edition of a classic (particularly if you ...

Forum topic - dave bailey - 15 Nov 2005 - 2:14pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

... Lawson and I already feel like I want to know more about the few begining chapters. On page 48 it reads —it may be observed that ... Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley (1911) and Bruce Rogers Centaur (1914). These were influenced by the private press movement, of which ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 4 Oct 2005 - 1:50pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

So, has anyone had a chance to test the new Bembo Book from Monotype? (I wish Fonts.com would provide PDF ... going through books trying to find books printed in metal Centaur to see what it was like. I had read the Alchemist in digital Centaur, ... metal Bembo. You can argue that Baskerville's types only looked good printed by Baskerville on the paper made by Baskerville. ...

Forum topic - speter - 12 Apr 2005 - 8:38am - 44 comments - 0 attachments