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Re: Outdated glyphs
I tend to include all of those, with the exception of the softhyphen, the handling of which I now consider the responsibility of the layout environment. I agree that the jacute can be handled entirel…5 -
Re: Glyphs thickness
The bowl of /D looks fairly balanced with the stem. I would aim to get /O, /C, /G, /Q looking similarly weighted. (Which might or might not be a matter of the same actual measure.)1 -
Re: Amusing YouTube Video
For those who might not be aware (or maybe weren’t even born yet!): the “Nova” in Proxima Nova was in reference to an earlier Proxima Sans. Which some of us actually licensed in the ’90s; and which I…2 -
Re: Subscripts vertical alignment
I would be curious to learn Microsoft’s basis for arguing a subscript that does not descend (and thus, in my view, not really “sub” 🤷♂️). It would be interesting to see their documented precedents.1 -
Re: Subscripts vertical alignment
I would expect subscripts to straddle the baseline (though not necessarily vertically centered). That is the convention I have always seen for chemical typesetting. And how I approach them in my font…3
