{"id":18388,"date":"2021-09-27T11:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2021-09-29T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:29:09","slug":"a-font-to-avoid-in-body-text-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2021\/09\/27\/a-font-to-avoid-in-body-text-weiss\/","title":{"rendered":"A font to avoid in body text: Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Many years ago, I read and enjoyed Richard S. Grant\u2019s 1987 novel <cite>Rumors of Spring<\/cite>. But it had one flaw that lessened my enjoyment: the typeface that it was printed in. (At least in the mass-market paperback edition; I don\u2019t know about other editions.)<\/p>\r\n<p>The letters of the typeface were fairly attractive. But the punctuation was tiny.<\/p>\r\n<p>Especially anything involving a dot. The periods were nearly invisible, as were the colons. And the aspect that I noticed most was that I kept mistaking semicolons for commas.<\/p>\r\n<p>I had always assumed that this was just one book, and that nobody else would publish text in that typeface. But recently, I started reading the 2004 trade paperback edition of Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s collection <cite>Searoad<\/cite>, and even though the book is mostly very attractive, I recognized the typeface almost immediately as being the one used in <cite>Rumors of Spring<\/cite>. Tiny punctuation! The printing in <cite>Searoad<\/cite> is darker, so it\u2019s not as much of a problem, but even so, imo it\u2019s just not a good choice of typeface for body text.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I used <a href=\"http:\/\/identifont.com\">Identifont<\/a> to figure out what typeface it was. Turns out it\u2019s some version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/fonts\/linotype\/weiss\/\">Weiss<\/a>, designed by Emil Rudolf Wei\u00df (1875\u20131942).<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s an appealing typeface! I like the letterforms. But I can only guess that Wei\u00df must have disliked punctuation and didn\u2019t want anyone to see it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Anyway, I recommend not using it for any text where the punctuation is important.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punctuation","category-typography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18412,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions\/18412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}