<div dir="ltr">An interesting project by Erik van Blokland (@LettError), type design teacher at KABK Den Haag: <div><br></div><div><div>"Erik van Blokland had an idea a little while ago to make a new unit for sizing type on a computer. His students were telling him things like “Well, I tried the text at 8pts and at 9pts and neither were working.” There’s a huge difference between two points when small, and adversely, one point size change when really big makes almost no difference at all. We should also stop being defined by whole-number point sizes when a computer is perfectly capable of decimal sizing. We should just use what looks right. Enter the Gerrit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A Gerrit (“1G”) isn’t a unit per se, but it’s a .25% increase or decrease on the size before. So Gerrits as units only make sense when talking about change—no one static size is 1G or -2G or 300G. Similarly 10G is equal to 1 Noordzij, but 1N isn’t equal to 10*1G. It’s calculated with a loop, more like compounding interest."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Read more here (it was implemented as a custom InDesign plugin):</div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://colinmfordkabk.tumblr.com/post/2622855066/erik-van-blokland-had-an-idea-a-little-while-ago">http://colinmfordkabk.tumblr.com/post/2622855066/erik-van-blokland-had-an-idea-a-little-while-ago</a>><br>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think it's a brilliant idea. Would it be possible to add such a functionality to Scribus?</div></div>