Comment by hamburglar

Comment by hamburglar 2 days ago

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Is it intentional that the baseline vertical offset doesn’t seem consistent? Text set in this has a sort of up-and-down sloppy effect. Otherwise I love it.

Edit: it mostly seems that capitals appear higher than lowercase. It feels like there’s more inconsistency though, like the designer didn’t pay attention to eg the perceived “bottom” of curved characters vs flat-bottom ones.

inanutshellus 2 days ago

IMO for a cartoon like W&G a little wonkiness and skew is entirely on-point.

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ramses0 2 days ago

Simply the "I" and "N" baselines on "Cracking" is wildly (un-professionally) off! Took a screenshot and there's +/- three pixels or so with no artistic justification for it. Even Comic Sans has a consistent baseline!

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stronglikedan 2 days ago

I was just coming here to say, it looks like each letter is about to fall over backwards.

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fwip 2 days ago

Doesn't seem like a ton of attention has been paid to kerning, either. The 'he' pair seems especially noticeable to me, which occurs several times in the "somewhere where there's cheese" image. I don't know enough about font design to guess whether the 'bad' kerning is intentional for the typeface, though - so I could be off base.

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