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Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
Hmm. As I recall, the old Font Bureau PS Type 1 fonts were generated with empty .notdefs. The unique dingbat glyph (known in-house as the “party” character) was drawn for the apple character slot (un…2 -
Re: Limited character set text generator
Matthew Butterick put this simple tool together a long time ago. Words, not text. Miguel Sousa constructed this one. If you click on Options, you can change scripts even.3 -
Re: Beginner question about unicode
You might also find this conversation interesting: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1388/what-character-set-do-you-usually-reach-for-as-a-default-when-you-start-a-new-font/p11 -
Re: Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?
Rather than just flag each of your posts as “insightful,” I’ll just come out and say it. ;-) Interesting line of thinking, and I think it has a lot of merit. Particularly in situations where there ar…2 -
Re: Learning to see Type
Context, context, context. (And experience.) Try not to kern in a vacuum. That’s my advice.2
