From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:49:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130426224918.GA820@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517AFCCA.4030409@wxs.nl>
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> >I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good
> >design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless
> >it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One doesn't notice that
>
> but i assume, as you were involved in lucida ot, that you know that
> this font has no kerns ..
Which shows what an excellent job Bigelow & Holmes did in designing and
spacing the glyphs, and it is also one of the few typefaces that does
not even need f-ligatures :)
> nowadays when i read some novel with excessive expansion, inter
> character spacing and whatever, i always doubt it has been done by a
> badly configured in-design or equally bad configured tex
I have seen a couple of those books with excessive use of expansion,
you notice it at glance and it becomes very irritating, so I now avoid
expansion altogether (the books were in Arabic, so most probably it was
InDesign).
Regards,
Khaled
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-24 8:39 "H. Özoguz"
2013-04-24 8:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-04-25 6:20 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-04-25 6:56 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-04-26 7:41 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-04-26 8:18 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-26 8:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-04-26 12:12 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-04-26 12:54 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-26 18:27 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-04-26 19:57 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-04-26 21:48 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-04-26 22:16 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-26 22:49 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2013-04-27 6:47 ` Schmitz Thomas A.
2013-04-27 11:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2013-04-26 16:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-04-26 20:05 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-04-26 20:17 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-04-26 22:27 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-30 12:28 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2013-04-30 13:32 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-01 11:31 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2013-04-30 12:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2013-04-26 20:05 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-04-24 9:00 ` Peter Münster
2013-04-24 9:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-04-24 9:04 "H. Özoguz"
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