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Clugusta! The A really needs to be closed at the top, and would also benefit from being slightly taller and slightly further away from the U. (View Post)

If your cap letters were taller, it would make a world of difference. (View Post)

A fundamental issue is the meaning of text and anticipated usage over its lifetime. On the one hand: Suppose you're an app developer and need to put some icon—depicting, say, a foobie (whatever)—into… (View Post)

(Quote) Yes, this is a long-standing InDesign bug. Frankly, I think Adobe should give up on all its own text processing engines and switch to Harfbuzz for all scripts, including Latin. (View Post)

Thanks, Dyana! (View Post)

I’ll respond with the exact same post that I responded a little over two years ago: (Quote) The discussion gets a little sidetracked but it’s from this thread. Basically, the argument against any of … (View Post)

(Quote) It would indeed be handy to be able to type e.g. ↗, but don't solve keyboard issues at the glyph processing level. When you type keys on a keyboard, you are inputting character codes, which a… (View Post)

Hi Everyone, @"Mark Simonson" recently suggested having a dedicated discussion category where folks can share typographic and educational resources including video links, online tutorials, … (View Post)

A good font name resource: all the world's town/city names. You can even combine half of one and half of another for a zillion possibilities. That alone will prevent font name shortages for at least … (View Post)

Yes. Although I have not found any rules for the use of inverted exclamation and question marks in all-caps contexts, I would align them to the baseline, unless your font features two set of caps wit… (View Post)