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Re: The design of Ŋ in high-contrast typefaces
I can see both making for a coherent design. At first sight, the thick stem of the hook may look weird coming from the thin vertical of the N. However, if we think of other characters like Y —as @&qu…1 -
Re: Height of straight and curly quotes marks
Depending on the language and the keyboard the straight quotation mark in typewriters was used for different purposes. Some examples taken from Mackay, The typewriting dictionary, 49–50 (from top to…5 -
Re: Hebrew Letter Characters Drawn In Souvenir Style
Every script has its own peculiarities and to reuse letterforms from one script to create another one is usually a bad idea. In Hebrew letters are reversed-contrast compared to Latin letters, the wei…1 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
Nina, this is an image of the Libro Cassinelli an internal document used in Olivetti as a reference for typewriter type design (1969). The original document is in the Archivio Storico Olivetti (Ivrea…6 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
It is true that the spread of the ink caused distortions in the shapes of typewritten letters, but it is also true that it was difficult that the ink reached the corners of the outlines so some type …2
