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Or...you could work with a designer whose training and experience it is to make things like this look nice and work well. Instead of trying to have an formula or algorithm for everything, just because that's what you know.

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Strange take, as if this isn't largely a tool for designers to experiment with type scales?

I'd be happy to be wrong, but this sure feels like another instance of a numbers/formulas/algorithm-oriented person wanting a shortcut to visual style. This site is full of these, in many areas of endeavor. As a musician, I particularly notice posts that do this kind of thing with music ("I've Invented a New Musical Notation That Makes Everything Easier!").

I just get sad for the designers who have to battle this stuff every day. No programmer would take "input" on their code from a nurse (say), but designers face "input" on their decisions and their craft at every turn. I've yet to meet a designer who was longing for a web form to input a bunch of numbers to generate some type sizes.

But I could be wrong. It happens a lot.

I think you assume that a designer can't also understand math, ratios and scale. Many practical designers are also engineers.

Not sure how you read that into my comment. I'm saying that trained, skilled designers don't need formulas and tools like this to achieve pleasing and functional results.

Maybe, but in this context on this site I think it's safe to assume a lot of people are going to look at this with "ah! another subjective judgment that can be marked Objectively Correct by using an algorithm."

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