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On the Mac, Popchar X is my preferred solution. https://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/ Perhaps there's something comparable for Windows? (View Post)

Looks like a rush job, a monster with body parts assembled from a variety of sources. (View Post)

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Luckily, despite the legibility, the word "Augusta" is easy to guess. (View Post)

Thanks very much, looking at the Codex Argenteus, it makes sense to me now. Though the written characters on the Codex are considerably more structurally coherent than Caslon's. (View Post)

This link may help you find what you need. There is also a link on the page to Unicode which covers this although there's no usage or historical information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_alph… (View Post)

wikipedia is a great source of course, because it’s available in just about any language/script. simply find out which lemma is covered by every language/script :-) a few suggestions: ‘woman’ ‘man’ ‘… (View Post)

The fact that "a" and "g" are open at the top isn't automatically fatal to legibility. If the capital "A" at the start was taller, the "Au" at the beginning wo… (View Post)

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 That is indeed very important to clearly understand.However, I will add one comment which may partly explain the widespread temptation to use contextual alternates despite the poten… (View Post)

That can be done with fonttools. This page can get you started: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/wiki/How-do-I...%3F (View Post)

@"Peter Constable" dropbox doesn't convert the font or make any use of it. Adobe has to do some things to onboard it. (View Post)