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notes
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Bold
Limits
Where?
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s
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g
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a
Assembly
Italic
Scans
Spacing
Elbow
grease
Glossary
Decision
time
If you haven’t got an opinion about bold letters, now
is the time to make up your mind.
Where do
you add the weight? How thick do you like your hairlines?
What length do you want for your serifs? What’s a good
size for the smallest counters, such as the inside of the
degree sign? What is a bold,
anyway?
What
exactly is a bold? It’s probably whatever you say it
is, as long as it isn’t actually lighter than the
regular weight. It is usually between two-fifths and
two-thirds heavier.
In this
example, I propose that we double the regular weight.
Shaping the silhouette of very bold letters is different
from shaping the line quality of the regular weight. Our end
result may well be heavier than we need. That’s no
problem.
We can
use a very bold design and the regular weight we started
with and blend a new weight somewhere between the two.
That’s fairly easy. Extrapolating extra black versions
from regular and bold, on the other hand, is a
mess.
