spiekerblog | scroll down all the way!News from | Neues von Erik SpiekermannFutura - the perfect geometric typeface- July 29, 2004 I have often found that supposedly perfect typefaces turn out to be less so on close inspection. Consider these examples for Futura: the version from Adobe (top in both examples) is clearly badly digitized. Early days, they were still learning -- it's not about blaming anybody, but about getting our client -- Volkswagen -- a decent typeface. If Futura's O is supposed to look like a perfect circle, why does it look like an egg And look at the counters in a, g, and e! Those are also supposed to...http://www.spiekermann.com/iblog/C61720386/E1641366970/index.html |