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The Handwriting of Type Designers
jamie found this blog post wherein an Australian Web technologist, Cameron Adams, wondered whether the handwriting of his favorite type designers encoded some sort of influence on their designs. So he wrote to them and asked for a sample. The result will make you slow down and appreciate the beauty and the aesthetics of type. Or else it won't.
that half of them have god-awful penmanship? A little bit, yes.
Writhe your naked ass to the mindless groove.
You have no idea what I am talking about. I expanded my original point that 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned' to include the typesetting as well.
I _do_ want the "maximum amount of words on a page," because when I can be bothered to reformat a load of text for my own use, I _do_just_that_ and it isn't "utterly fucking illegible" because 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant'.
Is it typography that makes those miniscule stock quotes legible, or the resolution of the printing process?
50 lines of legible text in 400 vertical pixels is artistry indeed, It is the endless variations and twiddles of typography when working in much higher resolutions that are unappreciated.
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