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Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
Being German myself, I wouldn't call it racist to place diacritics on random letters. It’s just that often it makes no sense, because a diaeresis modifies the pronunciation of vowels in German. It ma…5 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
That reminded me of this handy comparison, which I made, like, exactly 25 years ago:3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
The descending J is found only in the Bold and Bold Italic styles of Linotype’s Times.3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Frutiger claimed that the widths of the Selectric Composer fonts were indeed modeled after Times. Only when IBM engaged him to adapt Univers for the Composer, he did some research to find better, un…4 -
Re: Full character set of Latin script
To add to the character set definitions already posted: Christoph Koeberlin proposed three levels of Latin support, S, M, and L, based on language support: https://github.com/koeberlin/Latin-Characte…2
