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Note also that orthographies that use the apostrophe sign as a letter, rather than as punctuation, may encode this as U+02BC ʼ MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE. This is typically identical in form to the a… (View Post)

I'm sorry to report that Ely suffers a bit from the bone/bump effect Tobias refers to. To me, it’s most visible in the Bold. You can read more about preventing this effect in this FF DIN Round docume… (View Post)

To me «L'être» and «l'âge» in the first line are indeed too tight... but «s'est» and «o'clock» in the second line are too loose.  :-/ (View Post)

Sometimes I think that if Microsoft were in the auto business, they would include horse harnesses on their vehicles. (View Post)

Hi Daniel, maybe this is somehow useful for you. Troy Leinster, one of my classmates at Type and Media wrote an article about his experience here: http://typographica.org/on-typography/undergrad-to-c… (View Post)

I think you guys are all being way to hard on Google.  What you're describing is the natural outgrowth of a permanent beta mentality.  I like that their fonts are in different states of doneness.  We… (View Post)

In searching for something completely different (I think the Vox system) I stumbled on a document which records a 1975 series of hearings in which several representatives from type companies (includi… (View Post)

Wow. Such hate. I love and use emoji all the time in my communications with peers. Sometimes the ambiguity of the meaning is essential to the communication. Just like with language, understanding occ… (View Post)

The single most important thing I have learned — in the sense of internalised knowledge — is the relative widths of the letters. Because of the frequency of uprights in Cyrillic text, a lot of care n… (View Post)

Whatever fee you finally decide upon, I would suggest you add in for a Cyrillic consultant that you will most definitely need. (View Post)