Designing the space between characters
Most of a typeface is not the letters. A working note on sidebearings, and why the gaps are the real design.
Most of a typeface is not the letters. A working note on sidebearings, and why the gaps are the real design.
Print solved this a century ago. The browser is only now catching up, and most of us are not using what it gained.
A defence of the most misused mark in English, from someone who has drawn several hundred of them.