Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:01:00 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@well.com>, Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417125858.0458c6f0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010417205532.P74385@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010417124229.0458bec0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010416211727.045766e0@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com> <20010416191256.R27477@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com> <20010416193151.U27477@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010416211727.045766e0@localhost> <20010417095140.A74385@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010417124229.0458bec0@localhost>
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At 12:55 PM 4/17/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >I wasn't talking about rendering on the screen: I was talking about >printed books. I was talking about readability in the sense of what >the human eye can comfortably discern at small sizes. > >If you look at any book by a respectable publisher before 1980, you'll >see that letters in small type are broader (relative to their height), >more rounded, somewhat more broadly spaced (again, relative to their >height), and contain other slight differences, though they may belong >to the same typeface (Times/Baskerville/whatever). Very often, a typeface design will specify that the proportions of the characters should change at small font sizes. This is because the human brain and eye are nonlinear.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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