Serif small caps
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- moamoa0
>copy< just an example:
Mrs. Eaves may be be chique, fancy, fresh, charming, cool, "feminine", beautiful etc etc.
But it has rarely anything to do with good typography. It is superficial, shallow and, in short, an abomination.
It is a failure of ITC Garamond proportions.
Use it as you wish.
It may bring you luck, it might even bring you typographical insight, but do not set any amount of text over ten syllables.I'll leave it to the good people of Typophile to explain the finer details of the relationship between the x-height and the ascenders and so forth, while I, in desperate need for more nuance, go and polish my english typographical vocabulary.
>why Mrs. Eaves has become such a very popular font in such a short time
Market Presence:
*unexpected paradigm style shift for the famous Ms Licko/Emigre
*clever name (yeah, I know, Mister Frisky was first...)
*good promotional materialNovel features:
*smart ligatures
*two sizes of small caps
*unicase variantDiscreet presence:
*Small on the body (an Emigre trope)
*Open fit
(These combine with solid color to create balanced weight.)- i never paid attention to it but it has a very low x-height, which can be annoying in large amounts of text..janne76
- http://www.emigre.co…janne76
- when I saw it first in example sheets, I liked it.. but while I try it I have a bad feeling taht something is wrongmoamoa
- as you said espacially in long copy.. works well in headlinesmoamoa