![]() If you’re working on InDesign with any of these typefaces, which were likely digitized pre-90s, you’re going to want to use Optical Kerning. It’s display type, so you’re doing maybe 9 words tops, right? Man up letter it yourself. Bodoni / Didot is the Helvetica of serif typefaces. Sometimes this comes out okay-other times it is a clusterfuck (the kerning situation is bad). Most of the typefaces in the collection are Classics with a capital ‘C.’ Which means that most of these typefaces were originally designed for metal, then redrawn for phototype and then digitized for the screen. (If you go to another school please feel free to comment regarding your type situation!) By the website alone, you can see what kind of dire situation we find ourselves in (read: nothing designed in the last 25 years, let alone the last 10.) We at Parsons the New School for Design, like you and every decent design studio on the planet, have access to the Adobe Type Library, which is hidden on our lab computers in Universal Type Client. (#studentlyfe) Plus, the type resources we have access to as Parsons students is sad-really sad. No.” Why? Because we are poor and typefaces are expensive. Once upon a time, we had a professor who told us to always use a typeface made in the last 10 years. Parsons is not going to buy us new typefaces, so here’s how to make due with the Adobe Type Library
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