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They're not hideous. Overshoots sage there because at normal reading sizes sizes, or on poster sizes read from far away, if letters like o, n, O, A, etc. don't
by trealira 3y ago
They're not hideous. Overshoots sage there because at normal reading sizes sizes, or on poster sizes read from far away, if letters like o, n, O, A, etc. don't have overshoots, then they'll look too small compared to the other letters, even though they're technically the same size. It's an illusion that type designers work around using letter overshoots.
- zestyping 3y agoYes, everyone says that. It's parroted so often that people think it's true. But have you _seen_ it? Please show me an example of type that looks more _uniformly sized_ with overshoots than without, and I'll agree with you.
- dhosek 3y agoLook at sequences of capital letters in Kabel a typeface which doesn’t use overshoots and you will see that you’ve been ignoring overshoots all over the place.
- zestyping 3y agoI don't understand. I'm looking at Kabel and it has lots of overshoots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabel_(typeface)#/media/File:Kabel_new_specimen.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabel_(typeface)#/media/File:K... https://www.freefonts.io/kabel-font-free/ https://www.freefonts.io/kabel-font-free/ Are you thinking of a different typeface?
- trealira 3y agoI have tried to resize letters in FontForge and realized that the letters looked too small when I got rid of the overshoot. Sorry for the late response. I didn't see your reply.