Fontlympic Decathlon: The Kern
Our Fontlympic Decathlon continues, but first, yesterday’s results: Now on to today’s event. Kerns are adjustments in spacing made to specific pairs of letters. Some letter pairs, due to the nature of...
View ArticleFontlympic Decathlon: Weight
Our Fontlympic Decathlon continues, but first a look at the scores from yesterday’s Kern Competition: When designing a face, adding weight can cause serious side effects. A cool, stern text face easily...
View ArticleFontlympic Decathlon: Stacking
Our Fontlympic Decathlon continues with its fourth event, but first a look at the scores from yesterday’s Weight Competition: Stacking well is a tough challenge for a face. Its ascenders and descenders...
View ArticleFontlympic Decathlon: Short Copy
Our Fontlympic Decathlon continues, but first a look at the scores from yesterday’s Stacking Competition: Short bursts of text adorn the traffic sign, the report cover or film poster, in sum, anywhere...
View ArticleFontlympic Decathlon: The Dash
Our Decathlon continues with its sixth event, but first we’ll wrap up last week’s portion of the competition. A look at the scores from Friday’s Short Copy Text Competition: Which leads us to our...
View ArticleFontlympic Decathlon: Superscript Throw
Now rounding the curve into its final week, the Fontlympic Decathlon continues—taking the typographic acumen of you, our readers, and putting it to work to judge five faces competing for best...
View ArticleFontlympics Decathlon: The Pull Quote
And we’re back. Today’s event is the Pull Quote, but first a look at the scores from yesterday’s Superscript Throw: Pull quotes are designed to pull the reader into longer texts, by offering up a...
View ArticleFontlympics Decathlon: Light Italic
After a quick look at FF Sero’s victory in yesterday’s Pull Quote, we’ll get right into today’s event: The Light Italic. In its lighter weights, an italic can loosen up a bit and offer a fresh,...
View ArticleFontlympics Decathlon Finale: Long Running Text
Before we get to the clincher, a short stop-in at yesterday’s results FF Sero overtakes Alright Sans by a small margin. Now on to the final event, the Long Running Text. Select among the competitors...
View ArticleFontlympics Decathlon Wrap Up
A big hand to all the typefaces that participated in the now complete Fontlympics Decathlon. After all the ups and downs, what a surprise to see Jörg Hemker’s FF Sero emerge with the gold! Klavika’s...
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