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On the one hand, his father was a printer, so it may be assumed that Mr Knuth was aware of the effects of rendering process on type form, but on the other, as he once remarked (not about CM) "Be… (View Post)

The US State of Delaware is well known for its non-existent corporate tax policy. Many US businesses are incorporated there. (View Post)

While it's not easy to find the simple logic behind it, I would say: Yes, for some reason Д can easily live without these descending strokes, while Ц can't :) On some occasions, Д can go even without… (View Post)

Above 4000 unites you get in trouble with Adobe apps. I through that was fixed but were had a case on the forum just recently.  (View Post)

If you have a large upm setting and very wide glyphs, it may cause the coordinates to break some systems. E.g. if a glyph is 3 em wide, and has a point at x = 12000, and the rasterizer uses an oversa… (View Post)

Well, I hope they didn’t spend too much for this piece of loveless kludge. (View Post)

A long time member of the Apple fonts team is LDS, and I recall that when Deseret was added to Unicode he was keen to see it supported on Mac OS. (View Post)

As a “semi serif” style, this typeface emphasizes that those dangly bits on /De and /de are not descenders, but serifs. Indeed, one finds their complete absence in much sans serif poster lettering of… (View Post)

The integration of large amounts of kerning into digital fonts has a bearing on proportion. The reason that L and T are so very narrow in Futura is to smooth out all-cap text colour, when no kerning … (View Post)

Relative proportion in typeface design is complex, because it is both broadly conventional and also particularly idiomatic (and historically also varied somewhat by country, e.g. following Garamond, … (View Post)