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Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
This is all very interesting. To the day, I can’t see why VF may be of any interest to me as a font designer, font provider.We enjoyed the Multiple Master adventure back in the 90ies, is was a deligh…4 -
Re: My text face wish list
I just wanted to say that I returned to this very valuable thread, as I am currently doing a revision of Andron. A lot of requirements described here are already met, but some of the suggestions will…1 -
Re: Where to place special characters in a font
the principal answer to your question is, to check the Unicode tables for your characters, first. In the case of special arrows there are dozens of it encoded and hence you’ll see where to place them…5 -
Re: Sharp S can appear at start of word
it is less a matter of fonts (or typefaces) but rather of orthography. For many centuries there was no problem with ß being a minuscule only since a convention of capitalization did not exist in Ger…2 -
Re: Sharp S can appear at start of word
to put a long story short: the character ß evolved neither as “s-z” nor as “s-s”. It evolved as a ſ-derivate (an ſ with something). Centuries later the glyph representation(s) of it got interpreted a…2
