OCTO wrote:tisimst wrote: If possible, I would recommend thinning it down. It just seems unnecessarily too black, like if I had used a "caption" optical font in place of the "display" variant, if you get what I mean.
On the other side, I like the boldness. Perhaps matter of taste but size at 12pt read from 1-2 meters distance must be emboldened to be easy to read. Similar to conducting scores when staff size gets down to 4,5mm.
For educational material (music theory and analysis) the regular serif is OK when staff size is 7mm and read at table.
Thank you for the support, OCTO.
Nevertheless, here are two different versions of a song with translated text in PDF format; one with the original font, and one with a somewhat reduced version (the glyphs have not yet been cleaned up, though). Please take a look, print it and tell me which weight you prefer. Also, if you think the thinnest one still is too heavy, please say so, but keep in mind that designing a matching roman style might be a better remedy to the weight issue than struggling to make the weight match New Century Schoolbook (or any other font).
My reasoning should be clear when viewing these pages. In the thinnest version, the contrast between thick and thin lines is relatively high, an aspect that I've been trying to reduce with the thicker original. However, this particular italic style requires a certain amount of contrast, so it becomes necessary to make the whole font a bit bolder for the thin strokes to be thick enough. (Think of Bayard-Nizet's Espressivo font, and how thick that actually is).
And of course, please do not extract the fonts!
Thank you all!
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