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Re: Beyond the 4-style mode
FYI, I have seen some fonts in which ID6 is not derived from ID1+ID2, and so far as I am aware these work fine, e.g. Foobar Semibold ID1 = Foobar Semibold ID2 = Regular ID4 = Foobar Semibold ID6 = Fo…3 -
Re: Beyond the 4-style mode
Name IDs 1 and 2 still need to be limited to the max four-style groupings, which is why IDs 16 and 17 exist. So what you would have for a family that includes a Semibold weight, for example, is two s…2 -
Re: The Script Style of House Numbers
I didn’t design my house numbers, but worked with John Downer who hand-painted them for me. The shapes are based on his Iowan Oldstyle, but with proportions and stroke weights adjusted to read well f…2 -
Re: Which form of the Cyrillic lowercase ghe with a stroke (uni0493) is preferable in the italics?
The cursive form with flatter bar is what I am most used to seeing (so like Gentium and Source Serif). The Tinos and Times versions look wrong to me: this is a barred letter, and their little slashes…4 -
Re: A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
Thinking aloud: If foundries want accurate information on aggregated sites, maybe there should be an openly defined data format for information that foundries would maintain themselves and that would…7
