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Seeing sight lines

Seeing sight lines

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Seeing sight lines

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- [Instructor] I was at typography.com a while back. That's Jonathan Hoefler and Company. Jonathan is one of the world's preeminent type designers. Buying a new type face of theirs called Peristyle. I like it a lot. It's a condensed Sans Serif with thicks and thins, very high thick thin stroke ratio. You can see how you know, how much contrast there is between the width of the thin strokes and the width of the thick strokes. Also interesting is that it has an almost extreme X height. The X height is the size of the lowercase letters and you can see here that those lowercase letters extend probably to 80% or so, 85%, the height of the uppercase characters. This is a fresh kind of modern look and as a practical matter, it also means that you can stack lines of type very tightly if you want to. The general construction of Peristyle is just tall rectangles. You can see the characters are all rectangular like this, and they have just rounded off corners. It's not a round typeface. It's…

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