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The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter
Books and web pages frequently include tables of the four different versions of each letter of the Arabic alphabet, initial, final, medial, and isolated. This does not do justice to the Naksh script;…5 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
Not meaning to discourage your drive here, Peter, just as a note on research methodology; does this list need to start from scratch, and are you sure a thread on a forum is the best form? Asking peop…7 -
“French” apostrophe?
I don’t know how many have noticed this before, but the Arno Pro fonts have a character variant for uni2019 (quoteright) which is registered for {locl} substitution under languagesystem latn FRA. Thi…8 -
Re: Sound + fonts
now these are some seriously interesting experiments, but I was hoping to see (hear :) ) something a little bit more practical. For quite some time, I was wondering if a tool could be programmed to p…5 -
Re: Type Identification (Historical)
Not sure if I can help, but here it goes. The first printing types originally developed in Portugal, were designed by the french typographer Jean de Villeneuve (João de Villeneuve, in portuguese) in …5 -
Re: "Dawson Grotesque" Please critique
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.” —Jean Cocteau Considering one’s reputation, it might be best to release, as one’s first publication, a work that is unabashedly rough around…5 -
Re: TYPE "A Magazine for People Curious About Fonts"
Not tactless. We haven't officially set the annual price but want to make sure it is affordable. Likely in the $30 USD range.7 -
Re: Interesting piece of letterform history
Here you go: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_81/December_1912/The_Evolution_of_the_Dollar_Mark#/media/File:PSM_V81_D534_The_modern_dollar_mark_in_the_making.png From an …5 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q1
Smallcaps, super- and subscript, and numeral style/spacing variants are the bulk of discretionary OTL glyph creation work in our European script fonts. Obviously these then also need to be kerned, to…6
