... described to me their attempt to model the Kepler design space: it sounded like a cross between Frick and Watson’s famous DNA ... to know how to do it! In an ideal world, designers would figure it out for themselves, but in the real world, they don’t. ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... and gsvwxyz , on the assumption that: a) the space on both sides of each element of the 1st group can be determined, ... based on that. OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), go figure... HHDHOHODOO, and nnpnonopoo HHDHOHODOO, and nnpnonopoo are ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 1 Nov 2007 - 3:20am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... be of help there. I’ll let you know if I figure anything out, and I would be curious to know if you get anywhere with ... write the words (or get a semi-accurate idea of how much space those words will occupy, although there does exist an arcane discipline, ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 8 Sep 2005 - 3:11pm - 46 comments - 0 attachments

... fit is not just a matter of adding the same hairline space between each letter pair (or, equivalently, adding half that space to ... are part of the character -- the apostrophe and the figure 1 being the most obvious. In fact, getting really precise, it may be a ...

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

... face thing is The partial face thing is because the space Typophile gives for icons is small and square, while faces are oblong and ... and the dress code of type designers seems harder to figure out. Personally, I try to wear shades of gray as much as possible. ...

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

... treatment. But I used to. (I sincerely hope you can figure out what I just wrote.) — I chose Matrix because the ... one is Kris’s g. It plays so well along with the space, the other letters and the style. I like Eben’s last slashy g as a ...

Forum topic - hrant - 4 Aug 2005 - 1:34pm - 81 comments - 0 attachments

... stress on the modular squareness of the letters (figure 115 [shown below—MS]). This design seems to have been taken over ... long as with classic fonts, and it would leave sufficient space over the capital letter for the accents and umlauts. … So that once ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... I know that some other people don’t. If you can figure out the intentions of a 300-year-dead guy by looking at some of his ... that there needs to be a relationship between the white space inside a letter and the white space between the letters, you are moving ...

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

... I still don’t get. Can anyone tell me what are figure space , flush space , punctuation space and how to use them. I ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 21 Aug 2005 - 9:21am - 8 comments - 0 attachments

... In more Gestalt terms: The way the negative space (Ground) is active and supports positive space (figure). The black and white play well together :-) ChrisL Hi, I ...

Forum topic - oribendor - 23 Jul 2005 - 7:59am - 11 comments - 0 attachments