... that lie at the centre, or spine, of the glyph’s stem(s). These spines may be fleshed out by the type designer in a number of ... based on axis (or master). A pair of axis might change weight from light to bold. Another pair of axis might change condensed to ...

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

... it's leaning backwards. And I actually like the flat stem bottoms - it gives a nice contrast and makes the design more ... Worked on some caps to determen the best Caps height and weight. fontin3b.pdf (19.4 k) ...

Forum topic - pille - 20 Apr 2004 - 1:55pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

... to a font as the size scales down: 1. The stroke weight increases, essentially implemented by stroking the outline with a ... Here is a fundamental question: is InD's variation in stem spacing signal, or noise? In the frequency analogy, my stems form a stable ...

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

... by hand) sort : a piece of metal type weight : the visual darkness or lightness of the strokes in a character: ... generally referred to versions created with different stem thickness (Thin, Light, Medium, Book, Demi, Bold, Extrabold, Heavy, ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 5:24am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... of the cap outlines , and scale these uniformly for weight. I usually match the vertical stem weight of my smallcaps to my lowercase , even though the smallcaps ...

Wiki - paul d hunt - 10 Nov 2007 - 11:32am - 0 comments

... join of the bowl of the ’p’ to the vertical stem, and the spur that protrudes to the left. In the first case, it’s ... on about what they happen to believe, throwing their weight around in an insular sandbox, not really interested in changing ...

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

... about the עי”ן either, something about the left stem seems too bold (in appearance, not weight.) If I may ask, why do you name it Hagalil? Nothing about it seems ...

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

... decrease. Diagonal strokes, likewise, can only increase in weight if un-hinted. Since Italic increases in weight faster than the Roman, as ... do something different such as lightening or thickening a stem in X. But you never actually know what your target device is so it’s ...

Forum topic - dberlow - 20 Mar 2006 - 1:28pm - 158 comments - 0 attachments

... CVTs are control values. You use them for heights or stem widths. So you could in theory thicken up all the stems at small sizes for ... am I >remembering wrong). Tahoma was the regular weight font and was made first, Verdana was the bold. Verdana was originally ...

Forum topic - hrant - 26 Mar 2006 - 6:32pm - 32 comments - 0 attachments

... roman is to slightly condense the italic yet lighten the weight a bit to counterbalance the color change. As Adam mentioned the Sabon ... the more vertical part is thinner than the bottom of the stem; this seems to be general with italics. The slant of the i , though, seems ...

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