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It's an interesting source. But I have to say, his capital S falls flat. It makes the same mistake that efforts at "constructed" letterforms have made over centuries: assuming that the spin… (View Post)

I'm not sure if I'm correct but "specialized in scripts" could be misleading. Script refers to many concepts like a writing system. (View Post)

Hey there, a couple of years ago I've did this PDF, a genealogy of letters for my students. Hope it helps! (View Post)

Frode, I think you might have gotten to the heart of the matter. At some point in the past I began including the aringacute, along with a few other mystery glyphs, in my fonts for the simple reason t… (View Post)

In this thread, http://typedrawers.com/discussion/65/r-i-p , James Puckett left a comment about aringacute: It’s unneeded. Aring is a letter and not a letter in Danish, and in 
Danish any vow… (View Post)

(Quote) Palatino (1950) wasn’t intended exclusively for display purposes. It’s more of an all-round oldstyle for jobbing work and was cast in sizes ranging from 5pt (!) to 72pt. The Linotype adaptati… (View Post)

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It won't make the spacing of the italic easier, it will make it harder, because you're introducing an additional arbitrary constraint to have to satisfy. (Quote) I don't really follo… (View Post)

In my experience (working on 4 foundry e-commerce sites and at one time planning a foundry focused e-commerce platform), the return on e-commerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce, even Squarespace) di… (View Post)

Hi All, let's not hijack Val's thread with discussion that should be taking place in Suggestions and Bug Reports. Thank you! (View Post)

(Image) Replace all crossroads with roundabouts. (View Post)