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Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
André — True. I’d forgotten that when a designer hadn’t filled all slots, the party character was dumped in.1 -
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: App fonts pricing
Probably because that ship sailed too long ago. There was never a good point in the evolution of type where the market expectation could be shifted. When type was cast metal, the price for a font of …7 -
Re: Turns out people don't know what g looks like
I wonder whether if you showed a group of people four cropped photos of noses only and asked them to pick out the one that belonged to their best friend, you might get similar results. And I wonder w…1
