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Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
Igor You mean the big blank area under the diacritic in e.g. That blank area is part of the letter h, part of the pattern we recognise as h (that’s why I dislike nested diacritics sitting in that spa…6 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
That appears to be @. I frequently employ the over-the-top approach. Because it is less dense, the simpler design performs well in heavy weights. I believe you can stretch the legibility of the @ qui…4 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
I don't know where the over-the-top @ originated but here are some examples used on IBM Selectric typewriters. luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html Complex characters appear to have lighter strokes …2 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
At? I think I've seen this solution before for fixed width faces.2 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
I also make a point of using the flatter cap forms of above marks over lowercase ascenders. Among the oddities shown in Cristobál’s illustration is the inconsistency of mark height in Alegreya and At…4 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
If the ascenders are taller than the caps—as is the case much of the time—then the accents over the ascenders may need to be higher.1 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
Although it might seem that in placing lower case accents above the cap line they’ve lost their moorings and are floating away, bear in mind that in running text there will be cap accents at the same…2 -
Re: Font Feedback
I'd suggest sticking to one Typedrawers thread for soliciting feedback on the same project. (Maybe mods can merge.) Diacritics on caps feel too tight to me. Tilde and dieresis on lowercase on th…1 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
Irish, not Welsh. I think the nested marks generally look noisy, and are less clear than having the marks above the ascender height.5 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
I just realise that I have not been consequent with this throughout. The circumflex-h really looks terrible: that induces me to check the whole band of ascender letters with accents. Fortunately they…2
