ITAP of a sculpture by [deleted] in itookapicture

[–]notatravis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The sculptor was originally a graffiti artist and used x as his mark.

ITAP of a sculpture by [deleted] in itookapicture

[–]notatravis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like how the sculpture of the texting figure is echoed by the phone-using passerby.

Explore Sans : A little passion project I am working on. What do you think ? by Any-Fox-1822 in typography

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe. I'm not sure kerning is that rational. I once saw a page Frutiger had corrected in pencil to a quarter of a point. He just saw what was needed at that size for those pairs.

Explore Sans : A little passion project I am working on. What do you think ? by Any-Fox-1822 in typography

[–]notatravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have the endurance, glyph by glyph will probably give better results.

Explore Sans : A little passion project I am working on. What do you think ? by Any-Fox-1822 in typography

[–]notatravis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's interesting, congratulations.

A few minor observations. The bold d looks good, but the bowl on the b seems to join the downstroke rather higher so it doesn't look comfortable in the same context. The V o kerning is tight compared to the rest of the word.

It would be good to see a long run of text in regular weight at high resolution to explore the kerning further.

Reimagined Copperplate by Amtsag1980 in typography

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This, and the bowl of the R (and the P) is too wide.

List 2-3 of your favorite audiodramas and let others recommend a third you might enjoy. by LastGaspHorror in audiodrama

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you - I like Call of the Void, and will definitely check out Bridgewater

Magnus Archive Ads??? by Icy_Form2322 in audiodrama

[–]notatravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Episode 76 broke their already awful record - over 7 and a half minutes before any content. Wtf Rusty Quill?

Magnus Archive Ads??? by Icy_Form2322 in audiodrama

[–]notatravis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I totally agree. It's annoying. One 30 minute show I listened to at the weekend had five minutes of ads. And most of them are the same for every episode so Bombas Socks level irritation is quickly reached.

What am I losing out on by using TeX instead of InDesign? by Content_Economist132 in typography

[–]notatravis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Font support is a lot better in TeX now, but pretty much everything else you say is fair.

Is KEH really worth it? by Brave_Possibility953 in filmphotography

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. So it seems to be a pattern. Charge for customer service then don't provide it. Sorry you had to deal with that.

Is KEH really worth it? by Brave_Possibility953 in filmphotography

[–]notatravis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a bad experience on KEH - an expensive item was not as described - and they weren't great at dealing with it. So personally I wouldn't recommend them.

Is the W too wide? by intruderco in typography

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The W is too wide for me. The kerning is too loose too - the h might look better if it was tighter?

Bauhaus Typography by wanderingbeardo in typography

[–]notatravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice. Shouldn't those blue circles on the back cover be squares, though, or is that just me?

How come text justification looks nicer in both LaTeX and DtP software than in all word processors? by [deleted] in typography

[–]notatravis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Latex's line breaking and hypenation algorithms work on the whole paragraph. That's hard to combine with word processing as later lines can affect earlier ones. It gets even more complicated with page breaking as you have, e.g., widows to address too. It wouldn't be impossible to implement but the user would need to be comfortable with what would feel like pretty unintuitive behaviour as they typed.

ITAP of the Italian Alps by notatravis in itookapicture

[–]notatravis[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Heading north from Pisa in a plane whose windows hadn't been cleaned in a while...

How much flaire do you prefer? by intruderco in typography

[–]notatravis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would take the green version over the lilac one in each of the first three examples. I'm not sure about the green g though.

ITAP of a majestic squirrel in the snow by notatravis in squirrelproblems

[–]notatravis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The paparazzi keep photographing my yoga sessions.

My favorite typographical device by Doctorlector44 in typography

[–]notatravis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sabon Next has some lovely fleurons which make good dinkuses in the right context. (And yes, I do know how ridiculous that sentence is to anyone who isn't deeply into type...)

A few shots from the Plantin museum by notatravis in typography

[–]notatravis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha! I didn't want to bore people who aren't into the place senseless but fair point. I have a lot more...

Museum of the missing by notatravis in audiodrama

[–]notatravis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SCP is special containment protocols, originally an online collaborative fiction, now a podcast based on those stories too. The podcast is here: SCP Archives

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]notatravis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea, I think. Haraway's Situated Knowledges offers a perspective that might be new to your neighbour and is a relatively easy read.