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Re: New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol
I met today with representatives from the Central Bank of UAE and got clarification regarding the full-colour "digital Dirham" symbol they mentioned in their announcement: this is a logo th…5 -
Re: diacritic position of comma accent..
Plz, read this article http://diacritics.typo.cz/index.php?id=95 -
New: Origin of Type Frameworks (OTF) Course
This course offers an online practical and theoretical study of type design and font technology, taught by Dr. Frank E. Blokland and Dr. Jürgen Willrodt. Together they have over 80 years of experienc…5 -
Re: Academic Research on Type Design Methodology
I suspect the number of type designers able to answer your initial question, i.e. those who are also familiar with conventional UX design thinking models, is vanishingly small. I’ve no idea what ‘dou…6 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
I think that GPT report is best if read aloud in Slavoj Žižek’s voice, especially the line ‘The Pope is flattened into a badly spaced name.’6 -
Re: The Pilcrow
I vote “yes” and make an italic pilcrow. In general, my default is to make all letters slanted in an italic font. I have a specific list of glyphs to keep upright in an italic, originally based on Ad…5 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
I've tried to un-distort an image of the inscription, and added equal rectangles between the letters. They are not all the same distance, see NC and VS which are noticeably more narrow. (Source image)5 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7 -
Re: Out of Hundreds:What made the judge choose this typeface?
The poster for the inaugural competition:7 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
(Sorry to sidetrack) Dave, she has some great work! Really like some of her mix of type and imagery. That Welsh slate medium looks really nice.6
