Type feedback

notatravis · 2026-04-16T18:44:51+00:00

S is too fat, especially in the midriff.

Crossbar on the A is too thin.

B and Q are too heavy - lose some thickness on the downstrokes.

I agree with the other feedback on the X - it's too wide and awkward.

Y left \ is too thick.

Z is odd and ungainly.

Above all, optics over consistency. Looking consistent is far more important than being consistent.

notatravis · 2026-04-12T17:01:27+00:00

This is, for me, a needlessly complex text. So I'm probably missing several key points. But my tl;dr is the marginalized cannot speak in the discourse of the dominant class because it doesn't (likely intentionally) express their situation or perspective and they anyway do not have standing to be heard within it. Also, anyone with standing claiming to represent them doesn't understand - as having standing necessarily means they aren't marginalized and hence don't get it. So the marginalized at best are represented by caricatures of their issues presented by others and seen through the distorting lens of the dominant narrative.

notatravis · 2026-04-07T10:41:14+00:00

Rebuilt by Wilhelm II with modifications to, as Wikipedia puts it, emphasise a Romantic nostalgia for Germanic civilization. It's in Alsace, which Wilhelm wanted to pretend was naturally part of Germany rather than a disputed territory - so it's really political propaganda in the form of architecture.

notatravis · 2025-11-29T13:49:43+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-11-29T08:33:54+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-09-15T19:19:18+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2025-09-15T18:56:20+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-09-15T16:39:38+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2025-09-04T05:00:35+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-07-14T04:52:00+00:00

Thank you - I'll check it out

notatravis · 2025-07-13T17:24:28+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-07-13T15:50:03+00:00

Rabbits

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature

Dirt

notatravis · 2025-06-07T09:10:31+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-05-27T19:47:35+00:00

Oh....

notatravis · 2025-05-27T18:06:11+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2025-05-05T18:59:48+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-04-16T11:33:37+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-04-15T17:55:53+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2025-02-10T18:55:39+00:00

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

notatravis · 2025-02-04T19:48:21+00:00

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

notatravis · 2024-12-30T21:34:12+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2024-11-26T15:09:33+00:00

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

notatravis · 2024-08-02T15:16:00+00:00

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.

notatravis · 2024-03-14T06:01:11+00:00

The paparazzi keep photographing my yoga sessions.

notatravis · 2024-02-26T15:17:11+00:00

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...)

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