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Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
That seems a bit arbitrary. With any scheme of ascending and descending figures, there’s bound to be some combination that sits either “too low” or “too high.” It seems akin to concluding that it wou…3 -
Re: Is Bold Italic Not Cost Effective Anymore?
I have a mixed relationship with Bold Italic. As a text-face type designer, I loathe doing the Bold Italic — like James said, lots more work for little additional usefulness. However, as a book desig…6 -
Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
The practice of maintaining a consistent baseline grid across columns, pages, etc. is actually relatively recent, I believe. Or at least the “rule” that it is somehow wrong not to. In printing of the…4 -
Re: Extend language support?
The i.dot (also sometimes i.trk) approach is a strategy for simplifying the interception of fi ligation and i -> idotaccent.smcp mapping for Turkish and related languages that distinguish between …3 -
Re: One Year Later: An Interview with Louis-Rémi Babé and Yannick Mathey of Prototypo
Yes, Ray, many of these are solved (or solvable) in current [non-parametric] apps.1
