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#i'm noticing that a lot of signage these days don't have small caps which is a bit sad but i suppose they are somewhat antiquated
rubberbandballqueen
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it is becoming Increasingly Clear to me that i can no longer be taken out into public because i will start doing to fonts what jirt would do to the rocks and plants whilst on little walks
#the worm speaks
#i'm noticing that a lot of signage these days don't have small caps which is a bit sad but i suppose they are somewhat antiquated
#most of them have just straight up all-caps and i'm like 'mmmm. would a small caps version be better here?'
#the other day i was like 'what if i left everything behind to get a job at a type foundry in taiwan. what then.'
#what would i bring to the table there? why a sense of western aestheticism for the latin glyphs in their fonts
#combined with a lesser but probably still noteworthy knowledge of chinese calligraphy to help ensure there is a sense of unity
#btwn the latin and chinese glyphs
#and also kerning i would bring kerning to the table for the latin glyphs. like if we Must be monospace abt things we can do that
#but on god. the number of times i download a cn script font and go 'ah.' bc the english is the Ugliest monospace serif you'll ever see
#fortunately while it is a bit of work it's at least easier to match english fonts to cn ones bc there are So Many more free ones lol
#the other day i was looking through a chinese font website n i was reading their ~story~ behind this one particular series
#that they based off the calligraphy in these five or six Ancient Rare Books in the national palace museum
#and they were like 'yes the poetry was beautiful and moving. but to a type designer the writing itself is even more attractive'
#and i felt so called out. i have just the most incurable font disease on the planet lmao
#the other thing i think that might be neat to bring to cn font design Would be the concept of italics
#like i know that's just not a standard thing and that Makes sense bc to oblique the letters is just
#like. why would you do that. it's hard to read. but the spirit of italics is to change the font style entirely whilst keeping in harmony
#with the rest of the regular typeface which i think would be Neat to bring in esp since italics usually have a bit more flourish to them
#the other day i also found out that fangsong is used in government documents n i was like
#>:0 no wonder it has every character and variant known to man......
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