Figures

Handy little post over at FontShop on the different types of figures available (oldstyle and lining, proportional and tabular), and when each is appropriate to use.

(via Chairman Gruber)

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Lapsed: physicist and television producer. Now: media consultant/freelance film-maker, trying to reignite public-service children's media, particularly around science and engineering.

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