In reply to Where's Hrant's article on Hague's Olympic font?:
To me it really doesn't feel like it's leaning, the way an italic does. There's something about it that feels cantilevered, balanced. It feels like its standing perfectly upright to me. But I'm probably just crazy.
I think it has something to do with the lowest "horizontal" strokes of the letters
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You can see the rotalic bottom stroke angles down from left to right, while my hastily prepared italic keeps a perfectly level line. 2012Headline looks much like the rotalic from above the bottom stroke and up, but the bottom stroke itself is angled contradictorily. This is what I mean by "cantilevered." I think this might be what makes me view the design as somehow sitting upright, not leaning.
Interesting idea pairing up Keks and 2012Headline also.
