Standards for a Creditable Efficacious Font
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:12 pm
Question: What are the standards for a creditable efficacious well formed Font?
Answer: ?
Some thoughts:
Let's not consider Symbol or strictly pictorial Fonts here.
The original computer fonts were not scalable and have fallen by the wayside.
Many commercial fonts contain errors of various kinds and lack glyphs needed to fill all possible uses. But they sell.
Initial Fonts (Caps Only) Are extremely useful in the task for which they were designed.
Fonts designed for printers do not need Hinting.
Fonts designed for the Web desperately do need Hinting.
Design criteria is so personal. What one loves, another hates.
A good font must first and foremost be: __________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________
Answer: ?
Some thoughts:
Let's not consider Symbol or strictly pictorial Fonts here.
The original computer fonts were not scalable and have fallen by the wayside.
Many commercial fonts contain errors of various kinds and lack glyphs needed to fill all possible uses. But they sell.
Initial Fonts (Caps Only) Are extremely useful in the task for which they were designed.
Fonts designed for printers do not need Hinting.
Fonts designed for the Web desperately do need Hinting.
Design criteria is so personal. What one loves, another hates.
A good font must first and foremost be: __________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________