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I'm new here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Dominik and I am the founder of FontBase - a free font manager. We are a small team of 2 people located in Ukraine. Our font manager has thousands…5 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
I like 1 980 UPM, since it is the product of 2 × 3 × 5 × 11, it divides by 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, and 15; these e.g. respectively:* three-per-em space * four-per-em space ― and therefore the en space a…6 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
FWIW, I have often seen design with metrically compatible fonts. Century Gothic I see semi-regularly. Whether or not that played any part in the choice of that font by the end user is another questio…5 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
Here are some Rosart examples from Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century by Charles Enschedé [Haarlem, 1978]. Floriated and with medial decorations. Slightly l…5 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
An interesting Tuscan with medial decoration was made in the 1780s by Jean-Gabriel Bery, a French stencil maker. A set of Bery stencils (some 4000 of them) was purchased in France by no less than Ben…8 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
In lettering the midstem ornament certainly goes back to the twelfth century, probably earlier. The above are fifteenth and sixteenth century, photo taken from Nicolette Gray's A History of Lettering.11 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
I am not sure of their age by Fournier’s time but he showed a few ornamented faces with a similar feature on page 88 in the second volume of his Manuel typographique (1766).9 -
Re: What's this old metal arabic typeface?
I appreciate your perspective and understand the critique. Still, I have to admit that the way it was phrased felt a bit uncomfortable. Living in Southeast Asia, where type design education is very …6 -
Re: Somebody Agrees with Hrant about Black-Letter
I vaguely remember Morison thinking highly of blackletter's functionality. I think I might have blocked it from my memory because I dislike most of his typographic views... :-) Such a discussion is o…5 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Metrical equivalence is a technical workaround to text reflow in font fallback situations. Some of those font fallback situations have to do with licensing, i.e. to the unavailability in a particular…6
