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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Well, any foundry-metal type cast at text sizes would almost certainly have been put up in fonts with more like 40–50a in quantity, not 20 (which would have been way too limiting). But your point is …4 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Although f-stop can be correctly indicated with just an italic f, the fact of the matter is that very frequently in the digital age the florin/hooked-f ƒ is now used. Pretty much ever since the Mac k…5 -
Re: Units per em
I think most (if not all) of Font Bureau’s RE fonts are on 512 upem, using similar reasoning. I believe that this approach grew out of David Berlow’s experience creating the Prelude fonts for Palm. H…6 -
Re: Naming font modifications
When working with clients on this sort of modification or customization, I always recommend a custom or modified name. And along with that, I offer to provide them with a script that will automate ch…5 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Further to what @"Khaled Hosny" said about U+00AD being a control character, in the Unicode Standard, you will find this description in the chapter on punctuation: [Unicode Standard, versio…2
