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Aperture

Aperture

Sponsored by DJR . Typefaces in use: (top) Forma DJR , (bottom) Condor , designed by David Jonathan Ross, 2017.

The aperture is the frontier between the counter and the surrounding white space of opened letters (such as a, e or c).

A larger aperture increases the legibility of a typeface and is highly recommended for text typefaces.

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