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Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
I used to design audiobook packages, so I used that all the time. We called it "P in a circle". :smile: I made a special font that had it since almost no fonts included them in the '90s.3 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
My approach is to keep them clear and simple, but harmonious to the style of the font. I usually do the ® as a superscript since, like ™, it's almost always used this way. True, you can always apply …8 -
Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
It's sort of a fools errand to try to rationalize weight names. The only real solution is to forget names and just use numbers, as Frutiger did with Univers. In practice, this did not catch on simply…8 -
Re: What does the OpenType font "Open" mean?
It basically means that the format is open in the sense of "not proprietary."1 -
Re: Angled quotesingle and quotedbl
As @"John Hudson" said, it goes back to the typewriter. But the link between typewriters and modern computers is the teletype keyboard, which led to typewriter quotes becoming part of ASCII.2