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I read recently in Mathew Carter’s interview in the New Yorker, that once he has a character set scratched out, he does about 40 pages of print-outs for observation and to adjust any discrepencies he finds (whilst also feeling like hanging himself, apparently!?).

I’m designing a headline font and am doing the usual kind of prints — pangrams of uc/lc — mixed sets — mixed with numerals — the various sizes I see it being used at — and a cobbled mix of the special characters used in context. Basically I’ve no idea how anyone else makes their test pages and am just curious as to whether there could be a better way. And I print no-where near 40 pages, but again this is just display. I did some searches and couldnt find any literature on this. Would be nice to put together a master indesign doc I could use.