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Re: Aspects of quality for a typeface
Hard to measure all typefaces with one rule. A brilliant text face is difficult to compare to an excellent display face. Features and range of weights are much overrated, i.m.h.o., whereas drawing an…11 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Very good designs, Mr. Shinn. And Thank You for having been one of the first pioneers who made this character a credible member of the alphabet family. However, I disselect the Leipzig form in most c…2 -
Re: Stephen Fry re-invents printing with movable type
There may be even more to take into account. The Phaistos Disc is supposed to be some 3.500 years old. To me that is ‘printing with movable type’. I recall I have seen similar stamp prints on old cer…1 -
Re: There's two variants of old cursive/script lowercase d – rules on usage?
There is no rule. > What about d_d? You decide. But I’d say there is not much reason for a dd ligature.1 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
examples of florin variant glyphs after historic manuscripts:11
