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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 -
Re: FAQ: Vietnamese
At TypeCon in Washington DC a few years ago, I had occasion to talk at length with a Vietnamese type aficionado (not a graphic designer nor type designer, but a sincere typophile). He explained a few…10
