An interesting project by Erik van Blokland (@LettError), type design teacher at KABK Den Haag:
"Erik van Blokland had an idea a little while ago to make a new unit for sizing type on a computer. His students were telling him things like ?Well, I tried the text at 8pts and at 9pts and neither were working.? There?s a huge difference between two points when small, and adversely, one point size change when really big makes almost no difference at all. We should also stop being defined by whole-number point sizes when a computer is perfectly capable of decimal sizing. We should just use what looks right. Enter the Gerrit. A Gerrit (?1G?) isn?t a unit per se, but it?s a .25% increase or decrease on the size before. So Gerrits as units only make sense when talking about change?no one static size is 1G or -2G or 300G. Similarly 10G is equal to 1 Noordzij, but 1N isn?t equal to 10*1G. It?s calculated with a loop, more like compounding interest." Read more here (it was implemented as a custom InDesign plugin): < http://colinmfordkabk.tumblr.com/post/2622855066/erik-van-blokland-had-an-idea-a-little-while-ago > I think it's a brilliant idea. Would it be possible to add such a functionality to Scribus? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130509/86177bc2/attachment.html>
