Favorite ultralight diacritical marks
Ray Larabie
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LucasFonts’ recent Koning Display comes with an alternate set of monolinear punctuation and diacritics.3
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nice idea, but the different treatment of the dot (e/i) is inconsistent and the tiny diacritics of the ultrabold do not work at all (i.m.h.o.).In the light there is no emphasised variant of the polish l-stroke …0
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Here are a couple of ideas, suggested by the headline style of Paris Match, 1964.
1. A font that removes diacritics, as a stylistic set.
2. Horizontal line that represents acute, grave and circumflex.The style is discretionary in PM—note how déjà has no accents, but arrivée does.3 -
Typo-philosophical quandaries:
Beginner: Is the /i's tittle a diacritic?
Advanced: Should treatment of /g's ear be the same as an attached horn or ogonek mark?0 -
Is the /i's tittle a diacritic?Only in Turkish etc.0
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Craig Eliason said:Beginner: Is the /i's tittle a diacritic?0
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Beginner: Is the /i's tittle a diacritic? – Yes (of course)Advanced: Should treatment of /g's ear be the same as an attached horn or ogonek mark? – No
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Advanced: Should treatment of /g's ear be the same as an attached horn or ogonek mark?0
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Craig Eliason said:Should treatment of /g's ear be the same as an attached horn or ogonek mark?
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Not ultralight, but light: Orion2 -
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Stadt from Public Type uses hairline diacritics, and the aesthetic is also pulled into other marks and symbols like the parentheses, arrows, etc.
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