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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
The eszett is an ascending lowercase letter and should reach ascender height. If it looks too prominent, make the glyph narrower until it fits in. (I actually enjoy fussy eszetts that look like longs…2 -
Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
The math is wrong as the syncs they count against is all syncs by all customers and that is one factor they do take in. They also take in the number of named desktop fonts (production fonts) as a per…3 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Yes. There are certain kinds of document in which both roman and italic tabular figures are required. A quick search found this:5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Not sure the industry needs another big association. It needs a variety of working groups that coalesce around areas of interest. Scale brings bureaucracy and slow pace. You need fast-working and nim…8 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Orangenstadt :D1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I see two possibilities emerging from this thread: 1. Setting up an association that demands certain standards from vendors, with the threat that the associated foundries will otherwise leave the ven…8 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Not changing the /a and /g in the italic was the usual practice with sans serif italics until the last twenty or thirty years. There are examples of serif faces, mostly around 1900, that did this, su…2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Donat: Your antiqua solution for capital Eszett is already quite workable in my opinion. I would make the transition from heavy stem to thin roof more gradual, though, like in /U/, and widen the gap …1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Italics are 7-15 degree inclined as well as it is 8-10% compressed to regular design. You can check more info here.1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Yes, tabular figures should have the same advance width across the roman/italic divide. In the case you mention, I might be likely to make the proportional variants the default.4
