I can accept the description of squared faces as "ultramodern": They are forward-looking but practical enough for the present, which is to say, they are not out of place in the real world. … (View Post)
I believe (though I have been told I'm wrong) that once a font catches a shopper's attention, what they will most want to see is the complete glyph set, to know exactly what they're getting. Without … (View Post)
I see, that makes sense. Having a strictly left-to-right script with ascenders, descenders, and diacritics makes our ideas of a font's full vertical dimension much more unclear, which is why digital … (View Post)
If we are to take terminology from metal type, it should be called the body. Otherwise, I think there isn't a term because the idea is not particularly meaningful. The vertical metrics are not "… (View Post)
They typically had spirals in them before the computer age turned them all into at-signs. There is no Unicode for an ordinary spiral, which I find rather strange given everything else that there is. … (View Post)