Ben Blom

  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    Artur, your examples may be more artsy—but, I’m afraid, a little too silly. To your second example, my response would be: Why this desire to connect things? The advantage of an unconnected “fi” ligat…
  • Re: What are 'true italics'?

    Italics are being used for emphasis, but also for many other purposes. Trying to define a style of letters or fonts based on what they are used for, is interesting—but not very useful. Likewise, one …
  • Re: Multiple master/Designspace design workflow

    This description of a “designing from the extremes” approach, can be “mirrored” to a description of a “designing from the middle” approach. If you design “from the middle”, you will initially end up…
  • Re: Changes to Reactions

    I guess it means: “If enough people click this flag, the post will be buried”. In the past, the “bury-flag” (or one of the “bury-flags”?) was named “troll”. Calling a contributor a troll, seems to b…
  • Re: Changes to Reactions

    Indeed, because with the old system, if some people dislike a contribution, they just vote such a contribution down until it gets buried—which can be done quite quickly. Why not “balance the negativ…
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