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Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Update: the winner was Bierstadt, now named Aptos, with newly unveiled mono and serif variants. The serif vaguely reminds me of Corporate A by Weidemann. https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-…1 -
Re: Where to find old fonts?
Google Books has a "free" section which is in effect, an all time search engine of printed literature; Search "Full View Only", all content. https://books.google.com/advanced_book…1 -
Re: TrueType hinting in 2020
It may be worth noting that TT hinting is not one thing or one approach, but a set of tools that can be used in a number of different ways to affect rendering across a wide range of resolutions and r…2 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
Our house numbers are about as far stylistically from Neutraface as possible (but have their origins just about 20 years later).3 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
For our midcentury house with a midcentury mailbox, I really didn’t want to choose any of the usual typefaces, so I picked Gimlet. (This was a custom transfer sticker I created and ordered from Stick…2 -
Re: Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:
Characters like /grave (U+0060) are spacing characters, mostly inherited from legacy pre-Unicode character sets, although some of them are mapped to spacing modifier letters. These were used to build…3 -
Re: TrueType hinting in 2020
As Aaron implies: there are billions of people with much cheaper devices and lower resolutions in Asia and Africa. (Plus, Eastern Europe and South America are more-or-less in between Africa/Asia and …2 -
Re: TrueType hinting in 2020
"It’s 2023 and HiDPI screens seem to be almost the norm." I think that may be true within certain circles, but likely is not true across globally across a wide swash of users. IMO. I'd also…2 -
Re: With more appearances of "AI" in text, I wonder about /I with crossbars
One might consider putting in some Contextual code to substitute a serifed “I” in the acronym AI, for fonts that otherwise have an I without serifs.2 -
Re: With more appearances of "AI" in text, I wonder about /I with crossbars
In general, the typeface itself will determine whether a serifed I is appropriate as the default form. For example, when I look at your typefaces, Adam, I feel like I know whether I expect the defaul…1
