Comment by flobosg
3 years ago
Are they? Font contrast is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only color but other properties as well. For instance, stroke weight and its modulation, which are inherent to a typeface.
3 years ago
Are they? Font contrast is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only color but other properties as well. For instance, stroke weight and its modulation, which are inherent to a typeface.
Can you give a visual example where they're not? (other than anti-aliasing round the edges)
See https://medium.com/alex-couch-s-portfolio/type-hierarchy-and... for some of them. The “blurry eye test” mentioned there is related to the typographical term of color (see https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2015/04/... and https://practicaltypography.com/color.html) which is affected, among other things, by the actual shape of the glyphs. Font contrast has little to do, if anything at all, with anti-aliasing.
I see. You're clearly knowledgeable in this area and my naively used terminology has misled you. In terms of contrast I'm talking about the simple stuff "Contrast is the difference in luminance..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(vision) whereas you're talking of something typographical I was unaware of. Sorry for the confusion.
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To be fair, though, the first comment that referred to contrast was clearly talking only about color, and had nothing to do with "topography contrast."
The original comment was
> Designers love grey on grey. I’ll take comic sans any day.
These are two orthogonal features. It's like saying "fashion today is really into high waists, but I'll take denim any day."
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