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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Well, any foundry-metal type cast at text sizes would almost certainly have been put up in fonts with more like 40–50a in quantity, not 20 (which would have been way too limiting). But your point is …4 -
Re: How do you inspect a UFO file?
That was tongue-in-cheek. If one is experienced, it is not necessary to keep compiling to check. As you gain experience, you learn how to construct judicious classes and what to kern (and what not to…2 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Although f-stop can be correctly indicated with just an italic f, the fact of the matter is that very frequently in the digital age the florin/hooked-f ƒ is now used. Pretty much ever since the Mac k…5 -
Re: Units per em
Linotype matrices were specified to .001" increments (with machining tolerances of half that) — which is much finer than a quarter of a point, and effectively no unitization at all. Unlike the M…6 -
Re: “French” apostrophe?
In Slovak, that is not an apostrophe! (Despite how it may perhaps be input sometimes in some “dumb” environments.) It is an accented letter: Ľ. So, yes, it is thought of as part of a single letter.2
