Typeface crit
Typeface crit
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- airey0
Is it common to use the metrics from another font?
.................... .................... ....not worth it, and setting up metric is fun in fontlab :)
setsolid(Apr 5 05, 15:54)
.................... .................... ....that's both true and crap in my opinion. yes it may be fun but you're trying to redo in a few hours what took type masters decades to understand. the nature of letterforms and their interactivity is quite complex. learn from the past and evolve it. don't simply reinvent the wheel and make the same mistakes someone made and pointed out 40 years ago! it's an artform worth learning and treating with respect.