![]() Famed typographer Tobias Frere-Jones created the typeface in 2000 for the Wall Street Journal to use on its tiny-typed stock pages. Typography is full these kinds of perceptual tricks. If you want all these letters to appear equal in size, you have to adjust their height and positioning, lest they look mismatched. O, C, and Q? They overshoot and undershoot. ![]() Similarly, the lower extremity of the letter "V" undershoots those letters. In fact, its pointy upper extremity overshoots the height of blockier capitals, like H, I, and L. It appears to be the same height as other capitals except, again, no. ![]() To appear as though it intersects its neighbor's middle, you actually have to shift the arm on the upper-right downward slightly. Consider the letter X: two symmetrical diagonal lines, crossing at their midpoints, right? Wrong.
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