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| Dec 10, 2022 at 23:31 | comment | added | Canned Man | That is a very informative comment (I would advise adding much of that to your answer). Does Didot come in both display and text optical sizes? Also, I can agree that your sample does indeed look a bit cramped (and it is a bad font selection for printing on low-quality paper; I would expect a lot of bleeding, especially with e.g. ντ, ε, νε, possibly ημ), but there are two options to solve this: If not writing an academic text with strict restrictions, one could strongly argue for simply increasing font size; if restrictions are strict, another option would be to slightly increase kerning. | |
| Dec 10, 2022 at 2:11 | comment | added | cnread | @CannedMan, The x-height certainly has something to do with it, as does the somewhat exaggerated size of the diacriticals. Over all, what makes the Didot such an effective face is that the letters have been designed so that each is so utterly unique. Even at a distance a sigma and an alpha are distinct. I greatly admire Zapf, but because the counters of the rho, omicron, sigma, and even the alpha, are basically the same, the letters can lose distinctiveness at even a bit of distance. The only issue I have with the Didot face is that the letter spacing always feels a litte cramped to me. | |
| Dec 7, 2022 at 12:51 | comment | added | Canned Man | The clarity of Didot with its low x-height, is unmatched by the others. Maybe that is a key thing to look for? Fonts with a lower x-height? A low x-height allows more room for the diacritics to breathe, so to speak. | |
| Jul 13, 2020 at 4:23 | vote | accept | Draconis♦ | ||
| Jul 12, 2020 at 19:47 | history | edited | cnread | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added image showing examples, updated GFS links to go to section for each typeface
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 1:02 | history | answered | cnread | CC BY-SA 4.0 |