12/16/2023 0 Comments Tilted rightfontLower numbers correspond to a condensed font. The bigger the number, the more stretched the font is. The relation between glyph height and width. The bigger the number, the bigger the difference, so the font has higher contrast. This one is tricky, as we determine the relation between thin and thick parts of a glyph. The more of the area is black, the heavier the font, and the bigger the weight. To calculate weight we determine the relation between the overall font glyph area and its filled area. The bigger the number, the smaller the difference, which means the lowercase is bigger compared to uppercase letters. This one is easy: it’s the relation between lowercase x and uppercase X. Let’s take a quick look at what we measure in each font and how we do it. It is processed right after adding and you can immediately find this specific font by its optical characteristics (like magic). to de-activate most (not all unfortunately) of these fonts is by using a 3rd party app called RightFont. In FontBase, on the other hand, we do this automatically for any font you add into the app. Brushes can be tilted by using those keys. The problem with font providers, like Adobe, is that they classify fonts in-house ( maybe even manually, sigh) and it applies only to fonts offered by them. You should really give it a read - it describes all the aspects of this classification approach, so we are not going to discuss it here in full detail. But the real inspiration for our solution was the article "The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces" by Florian Schulz. Actually, the idea is not even new: Adobe Fonts does something similar where you can search fonts by weight, width, x-height and contrast, with three options available in each category. We have decided to implement a consistent font classification and search method that would be independent from all pre-written font parameters and would use the real optical font characteristics as a basis.
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