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Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
By “of late” I suppose you mean since roughly four decades ago. Offset lithography certainly improved control and consistency in the printing of newspapers. But the paper is usually quite thin and ab…2 -
Re: Philippine <i>piso</i> symbol U+20B1
Paul — Thanks for your observations. Yes, banknotes are almost never any use for gauging native use of a currency symbol, as most do not display one.1 -
Re: [OTVar] Axis Interaction and Literality
In the sense you’re talking about: Yes. Really? Are there users who expect to change the weight of a font and not have a line length change to some degree? I imagine that for those situations where u…3 -
Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?
Didn’t the representation of our modern concept of zero as numeral/figure basically start out as a contrastless symbol from the beginning? I would think the relevant question is when in history did c…3 -
Re: Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?
Seems to me the whole reason this is an issue is because the small-cap mechanism in the OpenType Layout framework was conceived to operate outside of any text-level casing mechanisms, and so the type…4
