The weight of letterforms increases in a fundamentally different way in grades than in weights. Switching grades will not affect the length of a text. The spacing of the Regular weight remains unchanged throughout the different grades. Their weight increases in a different way to preserve the overall proportions and contrast of the characters. (Think of a bold word in a paragraph of text set in a lighter weight.) Grades, however, are designed to do the exact opposite: they make type in different environments appear similar. Weights are meant to create differences between type styles, to allow readers to easily distinguish one type style from another. On a conceptual level, though, text grades are fundamentally different from type weights. But what exactly are grades? Why use them?Ī novice could easily confuse the two. With Richard Lipton’s latest release, Bennet, you can now add text grades to your typographic arsenal.
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