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Re: calt and liga tracking fail
Nick, there are now the {rclt} Required Contextual Alternates and {rlig} Required Ligatures feature tags. One would think that software would respect the “required” aspect of these specific tags and …2 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
John — That is an interesting observation, which I’d never made before. But I just went and checked a handful of my own faces in progress and noted that I too seem to be intuitively falling in a simi…1 -
Re: Small Caps Practice
LOL ;-) Well, I don’t know that I would characterize them as a luxury and “so may be omitted.” These SC punctuation are certainly not frequently needed, but are also not rare. I don’t have time right…10 -
Re: Is Bold Italic Not Cost Effective Anymore?
I have a mixed relationship with Bold Italic. As a text-face type designer, I loathe doing the Bold Italic — like James said, lots more work for little additional usefulness. However, as a book desig…6 -
Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
The practice of maintaining a consistent baseline grid across columns, pages, etc. is actually relatively recent, I believe. Or at least the “rule” that it is somehow wrong not to. In printing of the…4
