Tag: optical

0. Introduction So, yeah, I’m a type designer. And there are numerous situations where I end up stating that “I make fonts”, so that people can have an idea about what I do for a living. But drawing letters and packing them into working fonts is just a slice of it: I very often find […]

Index Introduction | Learning To See | Overshooting | The Stroke: Optics This is the first article of three, in our series, to talk about the stroke. We briefly introduced the idea (in the previous article) that the stroke width has an effect on perception and, for this reason, should be adjusted. So, this article is just about that: optical […]

Some years ago (maybe a couple, maybe more: I excel at losing track of time), Ricardo Gomes, from Lucky Stripes Cigar Box Guitars, needed a script lettering for his guitars. For me, this was a really cool project: making scripts is always fun and challenging, I could do a fast project (since it’s lettering), lots of […]

Index Introduction | Learning To See | Overshooting | The Stroke: Optics You probably heard about overshooting, specially if you came from a visual arts background. If you haven’t, welcome! And if you have, well, it doesn’t hurt to refresh our knowledge and explore what we know in a more in-depth way. 1. Definition So, what’s overshooting? If you search […]

Note: This series of articles are a work in progress. It’s in the process of being written, so there might be corrections along the way, as well as new articles. Index Introduction | Learning To See | Overshooting | The Stroke: Optics I own a lot of books. It’s my consumerist pitfall: whenever I go to a bookshop and don’t […]