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Unicode 17.0 released
Unicode 17.0 has just been released. Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement Unicode 17.0 landing page8 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
So, this isn’t personally my project or anything, but I have been paying attention and use both tools. I also happen to be in regular meetings with the folks who do make those tools. 1) No, Fontbaker…6 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The original European issue of Palatino in metal had most of those shapes. In About Alphabets (1970), Zapf says he was advised (by folks like Paul Standard and W. A. Dwiggins) that the American marke…9 -
Re: Lost - Found - Gone
Bookshelf collapses are bad, hoarding is not helpful. It's honest feedback that much typographic ephemera is wasted, especially on fellow type designers. And there is value in not being overly tied t…9 -
Re: Workshop Pricing
You need to consider your prep time as well as the teaching time (and travel time, etc.) As a broad guideline I might take what you would normally charge as a nice hourly rate, and then multiply that…8 -
Discover by FontBase
I'm new here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Dominik and I am the founder of FontBase - a free font manager. We are a small team of 2 people located in Ukraine. Our font manager has thousands…6 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
I like 1 980 UPM, since it is the product of 2 × 3 × 5 × 11, it divides by 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, and 15; these e.g. respectively:* three-per-em space * four-per-em space ― and therefore the en space a…6 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
FWIW, I have often seen design with metrically compatible fonts. Century Gothic I see semi-regularly. Whether or not that played any part in the choice of that font by the end user is another questio…5 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
Here are some Rosart examples from Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Charles Enschedé [Haarlem, 1978]. Floriated and with medial decorations. Slightly l…5 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
An interesting Tuscan with medial decoration was made in the 1780s by Jean-Gabriel Bery, a French stencil maker. A set of Bery stencils (some 4000 of them) was purchased in France by no less than Ben…8
