Pangrams

Sep. 19th, 2020 10:21 am
kestrell: (Default)
[personal profile] kestrell
Sadly, these are not letters to Pan, but they are those sentences which use all the letters of the alphabet.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/14-pangrams.htm

Date: 2020-09-19 04:50 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: cap Times Roman "S" with nick in upper corner, captioned "I shot the serif." (shot the serif)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k

Definitely cool.

Typographers are all about 'em, since we use them in type marketing materials.

In fact, one of the hot type designers of our current moment, Jonathan Hoefler, recently published a great blog post about an actually better-than-pangram to test out all the problem intersections in a font

https://www.typography.com/blog/text-for-proofing-fonts

Date: 2020-09-19 07:19 pm (UTC)
bibliofile: Fan & papers in a stack (from my own photo) (Default)
From: [personal profile] bibliofile
Letters to Pan: an idea whose time has come. Someone should get on that.

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