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Re: Archive of Briem’s notes on eth/thorn?
What I remember most from memory from the Atypi Iceland conference, was the idea that the curve of the lowercase /eth must be similar to the /parenright1 -
Re: Archive of Briem’s notes on eth/thorn?
Briem’s notes are archived on the Fontlab website: https://help.fontlab.com/fontlab/8/tutorials/briem/ Hope you can find the notes on thorn and eth there!2 -
Re: Paragraph spacing in input and preview does not match final display
The first reason of the issue is that the CSS in editor is different from the CSS in the published comment. Some synchronisation of rules (in the editor's CSS) will help to see more fair Preview befo…1 -
BACK! Devanagari Two: 12-week online course + scholarship
Practica Program is offering Devanagari Two: Introduction to Devanagari Type Design! Building on the foundations of Devanagari One, this immersive 12-week online course is designed for those who alre…2 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
Next Wednesday, the panels created by the EcTd laureates will be mounted on the walls of Museum Plantin-Moretus. Designed with a keen eye for detail, these panels showcase the dedication and typograp…1 -
Typographics, anyone?
I write to you from my very tiny hotel room in the East Village, where I await the Typographics conference this weekend in NYC. Is anyone else going? https://2025.typographics.com/1 -
Re: A verie bad fount
Great work Nick. I admire your continued interest in doing this sort of work. My interest in it faded a while ago. Keep it up!1 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
Maybe if you wanted a contrastive use between it and ? uni003F, but frankly this is just a glyph variant question mark, and I don’t think the case was well made for its inclusion in Unicode as a sepa…2 -
Re: zerowidthjoiner (ZWJ) not working on older versions of InDesign
The old Adobe Indic shaping engine had multiple issues and inconsistencies with other shaping engines. That is one of the reasons Adobe abandoned it and now use a wrapped HarfBuzz implementation. How…2 -
A verie bad fount
Following up on this previous discussion, I’ve now published the typeface in question. Auld English® has three novel contextual features (default long-s, pseudo-random effect for body-text letterpres…13
