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Re: r rotunda in inscriptions
The ‘round’ r was used after a letter that was (initially) round. Nina’s example shows an 18th-century mainly Fraktur-based lettering with some arbitrary combinations. Especially lettering leaves roo…8 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
February 2014 I discussed my idea of a digital font-technology timeline blog with a couple of colleagues, among whom Chuck Bigelow. This was my initial e-mail: Because there are recollections of tech…3 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
What actually is happening here, is basically arbitrary coloring and filtering, which could have a big impact on the perception of (type) history by third parties. This is happening everywhere, and I …2 -
Re: Average number of type designers in a type design group.
I’m surprised that URW(++) isn’t mentioned either. I would say that this Hamburg, Germany based company is the oldest digital type foundry. After all, digital typography started with Dr. Karow’s IKAR…1 -
Re: Creating opentype font in FontLab 5
AFAIK Glyphs and RoboFont also require to set Adobe Illustrator units preferences to pixels. The consequence is that one has to enlarge smaller images to a certain size to prevent loss of detail. The…2
