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