Designing the space between characters
Most of a typeface is not the letters. A working note on sidebearings, and why the gaps are the real design.
Most of a typeface is not the letters. A working note on sidebearings, and why the gaps are the real design.
Print solved this a century ago. The browser is only now catching up, and most of us are not using what it gained.
A defence of the most misused mark in English, from someone who has drawn several hundred of them.
A short field guide to the space between letters, and why professionals lose sleep over it.
Change the font, change the sentence. On the strange feedback loop between how words look and how they read.