I’m a web designer and I constantly fail at typography. I’ve studied it a little but still have no idea what a good tracking/line-height would be. Is there a listing (or calculator) of system fonts with sizes/letter-spacing/line-heights? ...

Forum topic - w1sh - 29 Aug 2008 - 10:34am - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... in Font Lab. I’m looking for advice in optimizing the letterspacing and kerning for both. They are SpencerianScript and Chancery ...

Forum topic - Grace Connell - 24 Apr 2006 - 8:48am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... against typopgraphy Crimes against typopgraphy letterspacing blackletter letterspacing blackletter Having your head inserted in Having your head ...

Forum topic - Phil T - 26 Nov 2008 - 2:41am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... spaced, in that context? BTW, better to call this letterspacing, as kerning is more useful to mean what a font designer does in a ... young, but I’m obviously young, but when I hear letterspacing, I think of the equidistant value of space between the letters. ...

Forum topic - Erakez - 21 Nov 2008 - 8:03am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... a bit, I glimpsed this little fellow: The letterspacing is hugemungously wide, too the point that I couldn’t read ... something. From a sharp angle extended characters and wide letterspacing will look more natural. I think you give them too I think ...

Forum topic - DanGayle - 12 Dec 2007 - 5:46pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Just wondering: will I be eternally damned for letterspacing Gill Sans for the main text on a page? The default spacing just ... as though I’m setting a whole book in Gill Sans with letterspacing. Perhaps using InDesign’s optical kerning would be ...

Forum topic - albrey - 2 Aug 2006 - 10:40am - 16 comments - 0 attachments

What is letterspacing? How do you kern letters ’by eye’? Jim Krause ... likes should matter to a designer. As to letterspacing & kerning, Bill is right, fashion changes. But I would say that you cannot get good spacing (kerning or letterspacing) mathematically. Worse, I believe you can’t use the same ...

Forum topic - joeking_tp - 12 Apr 2007 - 10:18am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

... too dense and heavy appearance, which needs very careful letterspacing when hand-set in sizes smaller than 12 point...clear distinctions ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 12 Sep 2008 - 4:54am - 303 comments - 0 attachments

... book ’Elements of typographic style’ -(letterspacing is like stealing sheeps). In my confusion I have searched on ... one could OK! So I guess one could translate it into: Letterspacing lowercase(/blackletter) is bad typography manners? Thank you! ...

Forum topic - yakobu3000 - 28 Nov 2008 - 5:58am - 8 comments - 0 attachments

i have a question about the letterspacing in the title of this book cover. i am using InDesign - the ...

Forum topic - hereandthere - 10 Jan 2007 - 2:30am - 25 comments - 0 attachments