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100% practical. Sketches have been made to explain some basic issues in type design during the workshops. They get used to point out some problems which raise while creating a new typeface. Only some foundations are shown, no deep sophisticated details.
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100%實(shí)用。這一系列關(guān)于字體設(shè)計(jì)的討論文章來自typeworkshop.com，每篇文章都配有手繪的插圖，以闡明字體設(shè)計(jì)的一些基本事項(xiàng)，指出設(shè)計(jì)新字體時(shí)可能會(huì)遇到的一些問題。這里只講述一些最基礎(chǔ)的東西，未涉及復(fù)雜的技術(shù)細(xì)節(jié)。
Same size for all! To optically align all characters on a line, they cannot not have exactly the same mathematical height. For example the triangle on this drawing has to be higher than the rectangle. If this is not the case, the triangle will for sure look smaller than the rectangle. While creating a typeface, you want all the letters to have the same height.
為了讓所有字符在視覺上對(duì)齊，它們就不能采用同樣的物理尺寸。比如說，下圖中的三角形的高度就必須大于矩形。否則，三角形看起來就要比矩形小很多。 而我們?cè)谠O(shè)計(jì)字體的時(shí)候，往往想給它們定義同樣的高度。
Also round forms have to exceed the baseline to be optically the same. If the circle would have exactly the same mathematical height as the rectangle, it would look smaller than the square. This doesn't only count for basic forms like triangles, circles and squares. It's essential in type design, because they apply to every single character in a typeface. Then it even doesn't matter if you're designing a latin, cyrillic or greek font. It's a basic principle for any kind of shape.
同樣的 ，為了使圓形看起來和矩形同樣大小，圓形就必須超出基線。如果圓形和矩形物理尺寸一樣，圓形看上去就會(huì)比矩形小。這一規(guī)則不僅僅適用于三角形、圓形、方形這樣的基本形狀，這是字體設(shè)計(jì)的基本原則，整個(gè)字體中的所有字符都適用這一原則。不管你設(shè)計(jì)的是拉丁字體、還是斯拉夫或者希臘文字體，這是所有形體都必須遵循的基本準(zhǔn)則。
英文原文
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出處：藍(lán)色理想
責(zé)任編輯：moby
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