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Re: Improved Selectric Composer Catalog Available
Thank you for posting! I just love the composer fonts. I have a physical copy of a German catalogue, from which I made a digitisation of Century. It’s included in this collection: https://github.com/…1 -
Re: Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English
For German, in some kinds of games like crossword puzzles, etc., usually those German letters are substituted: Ä → AE Ö → OE Ü → UE ß → SS Scrabble has umlaut letters in Germany (and the rules forbid…3 -
Re: Font Engineering resources needed
This looks quite useful; I think it deserves its own topic instead of being buried in this thread. Or add some examples in the wiki or readme on GitHub :)4 -
Re: Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0
In OCR-B, Adrian Frutiger made the numbers taller than cap height. This was to enhance the differentiation between letters and numbers needed for machine reading at the time.6 -
Re: Supersized em square
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…6
