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Re: Habsburg Spain type design?
In the 16th century the Spanish church patronized the French printer, Christoph Plantin, who in turn procured type from the French typecutters. According to a brief type history by Mike Parker (now a…5 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
Nick’s refinement of my idea of built-in overlapping, by just extending one side of the headline, not both, so as to minimize need the “normal” alternates, is a nice improvement. John’s idea is inter…2 -
Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
That might be useful at some stage of proofing, but it doesn’t give one the opportunity to discover pairs that are not currently kerned but may need to be (or may require sidebearings to be reevaluat…1 -
Re: Fraction Slash
Nut fractions are far less common in non-scientific typographic settings these days. But I suspect they were a bit more common a century ago, in the metal era.3 -
Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
The danger with trying to have a concise list with only many compounded kerning pairs is that is it equally contrived and can lead to distorted results in the opposite direction. Don’t misunderstand …7
