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Re: How can small designers' fonts ever sell successfully?
I have departed from expecting notable income from fonts in any general sense of the business, long since. The market is just rotten. The only viable perspective I see for a small business is to focu…7 -
Re: Books/methods for learning calligraphy
just two additional hints:• Always look also at specimen from the actual period. Go to museums, historic libraries or lapidaria where you can see originals unfiltered.• Study the main styles in their…4 -
Re: Books/methods for learning calligraphy
Though it is not widely known nor up-to-date, I can recommend Schrift und Schreiben by Hildegard Korger. It focusses on a few principal writing styles (Capitalis, Minuscule, Italic, Blackletter – and…3 -
Re: Math symbols placement
My pragmatic receipe is to a) align most of the operational signs centered vertically; and b) adjust the + to stand right on the baseline. Additionally, to keep things simple, I adjust the centered m…2 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
Arrows do appear in text, as a matter of fact. As do flowers, houses, airplanes, babies, smile faces, boxes, zodiac symbols, locomotivs and and and … you name it. One of my recent works, about 160 p…2
