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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…7 -
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 -
Re: Announcing the first Fonts and AI conference
There's a lot that we need to learn about this technology, what it is and it is not. There are many threats but there are also opportunities so we can either bury our heads in the sand or we try to u…6
