Altered Ego Fonts Blog

It is often said that music is made beautiful not by the notes, but the spaces between the notes. The musicality of a typeface is determined by the rhythm of the strokes, the spacing, the tempo at which it carries the eye through the line. It has a tone- a visual look determined by individual characters and spacing working together; it also carries an overtone- reflected in the interplay of counters and bowls; of stems, strokes and hairlines; of inter-character and inter-word spacing. A reader with an attentive eye may notice this only after page after page flows by without strain to the eyes.