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Re: User friendly family naming
Very Tall, Tall, Average, Short, Very Short. Height doesn't actually change in normal practice, but it does describe the proportions.2 -
Re: What is the current day difference between a typeface and a font?
It might be useful to remember where these words came from. The word "type" originally meant something that created an impression in some material, usually metal, like a stamp. "Face&q…2 -
Re: Upper store of the lc a
It's not the same principle as with the /eight or /S. Those are symmetrical characters conceptually. The top part is smaller to make them more optically symmetrical. The /a is not symmetrical in that…5 -
Re: The Pilcrow
In the metal type days, it was a separate "sort", a generic character not part of any particular typeface, and there was typically a single design. The first PostScript fonts included the p…2 -
Re: Should the bullet sign be slanted in italic?
# is a bit like @ in that it came from a generic "sorts" font in the metal days, and wasn't typeface specific until more recently, especially since PostScript. I guess if the font is meant …2
