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Re: Dagger Symbol Design
Since it is more common these days for a font to have a full-size dagger, and because it has valid uses at this size and alignment, I typically draw the default dagger as such. And then for a book te…3 -
Re: Dagger Symbol Design
Perhaps practices in other countries are different, but in the United States the copyright symbol always precedes the relevant information (usually date and author) and sits on the baseline — e.g.: ©…4 -
Re: Tabular Figures Width Consistency
Sometimes it is useful to have figures align only with themselves, even if not with any other weight. Here’s an example: It is not uncommon these days for publications to like to run Top 5 (or 10 or …7 -
Re: Monospace f-ligatures
Nick — That wouldn’t apply in this case, since presumably the only way that one of the precomposed ligatures that we’re talking about (the legacy fi and fl chars) would be in the text stream is because…2 -
Re: Tabular Figures Width Consistency
If you’re developing a workhorse face that can be reasonably expected to be used for the setting of tabular matter — such as price lists, stats, or annual reports — then I recommend making the tabula…6
