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Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
I have often contemplated this matter. In my opinion, one of the pinnacles of text production was the era of American book publishing in the 1940s and ’50s — publishers like Alfred A. Knopf, Random H…9 -
Re: Approaching Kerning Groups or Classes
Yes, ideally any splitting and filtering is handled as a pre-processing routine during compilation, leaving lumped classes intact in the master source for future design management and development.2 -
Re: Horizontal stroke in Latin Extended characters
Florian beat me to it with the C&C Big Caslon that Matthew was involved in extending. Sometimes I will make the cross stroke in Ħ slightly lighter than the others because of the more congested vi…3 -
Re: Macron on Top
Does it really matter? Isn’t ॡ a largely theoretical phoneme anyway? Are there really any Vedic or Classical words using this vowel? And then, are they ever written in all-caps? Is it even in Pāṇini’…3 -
Re: Marking Copies of Fonts
I did this once, on a lark. I was asked to donate gratis copies of Whitman for use by students only for projects within the context of a particular design course. I added specific extra points along …2
