Typophile

Display, Caption & Subheading Explanation?

buddhaboy

I am looking at Cronos and in particular at the different contextual (not sure if that's the right term, but it makes sense in my mind) weights - i.e. Display, Caption Subhead...

Now, I appreciate Display and Caption variances from the regular design, but the Subh version looks identical to the Display variation, apart from maybe very slightly looser tracking.

It's hard to see any subtle differences as I am just looking at the rasterised samples on myfonts... can anyone explain why the Subh context of this typeface is worth the extra investment?

Thanks

Steve

the term that Adobe uses for these different styles is optical size. They are each intended to work optimally at different point sizes. Check this link:
http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/opticalsize.html

That's really handy - I didn't see a link to this. Thanks for the heads up :)

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