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Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Font developers serve whomever pays, and the graphic arts market, even here in the future, still pays. The graphic arts market is, for the most part, also the people who create online media. Readers …3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
My default character set has grown in a haphazard way. It started out years ago with what Fontographer showed by default, which IIRC was a superset of the MacRoman and Windows Western Latin. Later I …2 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
It sounds like she's saying that there is a non-professional font user market consisting of people who can't afford professional graphics apps, and that OT features tend to only be supporte…3 -
Re: Italics workflow
Don't slant by center of selection. You will get different relative horizontal shifts depending on the height of the glyph. For instance, a tall glyph will effectively be shifted more to the lef…4 -
Re: Lowercase Hashtag?
Not to mention rankings (e.g., #1, #2, #3). I rarely see it used for pounds anymore.2
