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Re: Æthelflæd
The idea of ‘modernizing’ a blackletter structure towards a more modern (Roman) appearance is actually a quite old one. I think it has been tried several times since the 1st half of the 19th centurey…4 -
Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
The preferred and appropriate method for choosing „…“ or »…« in German text is to press the right keys. It is different characters and I advise not to force the user into one particular preference h…4 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
Since I see myself as font designer in the first place, I feel somehow uncomfortable with the fact that more and more attention shifted towards technical and policy issues over the last years (just h…4 -
Re: Good words for sketching letters
minimum is what I usually start with when I instruct my students on minuscule writing. UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK is what they learn to hate when we practise Capitalis. In fonting my lowercase take-off i…3 -
Re: Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W
Hello Michael! I’d wish you had shown us these samples earlier … :o I’m thinking about which features are mandatory, seen from the MS sources point of view: middle-welsh v:* the bottom being rounded …1
