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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...

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Fontlympic 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...

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Fontlympic 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...

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Fontlympic 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...

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Fontlympic 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...

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Fontlympic 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...

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Fontlympics 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...

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Fontlympics 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,...

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Fontlympics 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...

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Fontlympics 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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