The old typography is new again

Link: https://adobe.design/ideas/the-old-typography-is-new-again?ref=daniel.pizza For five centuries, every typeface size was its own unique design. What we now call optical sizing—the practice of adapting a typeface’s design for different sizes to keep it readable—is a modern attempt to preserve that deliberate design choice to honor size-specific type, even though the physical reasons for it no…