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Why “The Quick Brown Fox” is no good for modelling a typeface

2 pointsby ubacalmost 5 years ago

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ubacalmost 5 years ago
> Typography is about the spaces between the letters as much as it is about the letters; to optimise the spaces you need more and better-fitted “pangrams”, which is what typographers call the test sentences, frequently invoking foxes and dogs and lynxes, used to evaluate fonts. “The seven most visually awkward letters are among the nine rarest in English, but pangrams force them into every sentence”