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To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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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


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