- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:53:07 +0100
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > I believe that fonts are modified for reasons other than pixel fitting, > so scaling by eye here meant that the person engraving the mould for the > typeface would make adjustments so that the font looked right at the > particular size. Exactly so. Compare Don Knuth's "Computer Modern" typefaces cmr5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 (ideally using MetaFont proof or smoke mode) to really appreciate how the various elements of a glyph need to vary depending on the design size. The differences are most noticeable at the smallest sizes. The table commencing on page 12 of Volume E of "Computers and Typesetting" shews the numerical differences, but the most obvious way of perceiving the differences is to scale all design sizes to the same final size, and to set the same text in each. See http://www.rhul.ac.uk/resources/Font-samples/CMR-Lorem.pdf for a sample sheet. Philip Taylor
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