Talk:Twentieth Century (typeface)

The Twentieth Century typeface together with a special typeface design is used in the text of all documents for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games LOCOG 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOVnYsBCJU http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9280592/London-2012-Olympics-Locog-reveal-design-of-Games-tickets.html Nekko09 (talk) 03:07, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I've looked at high-resolution pictures and I'm pretty sure it's not, or at least not the normal MT digitisation. The x-heights seem wrong, the V looks too narrow and in particular the extreme stroke contrast as curves merge with verticals is completely missing. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's Futura. Do you have a source? Blythwood (talk) 21:44, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

"Larger x-height"
A claim that used to be in this article is that Tw Cen has "a higher x-height" (taller lower-case letters) than Futura. I've decided to remove this claim. Let me explain why.

Metal type fonts were designed at different sizes differently, even if they were in the same family. Tobias Frere-Jones illustrates this clearly here. Same typeface (Century Schoolbook, Futura), different size, different look. Twentieth Century in digital has a high x-height - I suspect because because it's based on the drawings for a small point size of the metal type. And the digital Futura that comes with a Mac has a low x-height. But that doesn't mean that Tw Cen in metal had a higher x-height at the same point size as Futura - we'd need to see specimen prints for that. (If anyone knows someone who could get these for us, do let me know.)

So I'm removing this as potentially misleading. Blythwood (talk) 21:17, 5 October 2016 (UTC)