I think I heard someone say at TYPO Berlin that bold italic got so popular because early WYSIWYG editors had a button for bold and a button for italic. You could turn them on individually and thus a … (View Post)
@SiDaniels I don't see why SVG couldn't be broken down in exactly the same way (or, the other way around, be constructed from separate layers) but whatever suits your workflow :) By the way, I was wr… (View Post)
I'm ultra excited to be there, and I'm happy to have my first type conference be one with such an amazing line-up. Looks like all the folks who's articles I read or tools I use will be there. It's de… (View Post)
You can always choose to use colors not coming from CSS custom properties. In other words, colors that are "hardcoded" in the SVG images. This is how the current SVG-in-OpenType fonts like … (View Post)
Fredric Brown is a science fiction pulp writer, and has a few stories starring Linotype machines. The most famous is "Etaoin Shrdlu", about a sentient Linotype machine attacking its typeset… (View Post)