Making useful things feel human requires care, restraint, and enough attention to notice what the work is already asking for. The cap is measured from its visible pixels, then the paragraph gets the final vote.
Other useful citizens
Questions have tails. The circular bowl should meet the text while the tail continues below it, because a tail that behaves exactly like an O is having a small identity crisis.
I wanted the single capital I to keep its top and bottom bars without making every other opening borrow them.
As the screen changes, the opening word stays together. Its visible width determines the room beside it without making the body copy smaller to flatter a large initial.
Hi. Punctuation belongs to the opening. It should not be abandoned merely because the first few letters have become locally important.
I’m interested in the details that survive a change of context. The apostrophe stays with its word and the paragraph keeps its ordinary rhythm.
Making this opening a link should preserve its color without producing an underline large enough to receive mail.
No cap here. An intentional opt-out should remain ordinary, readable text. Restraint is also a feature, although it rarely gets a launch video.