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Re: Anybody else want to commission a open source Wordpress type tester?
Just use hb-view. You can even get it to render them as SVG, and embed that in your DOM for nice live updating.1 -
Book Review: How to create typefaces
This is the long-awaited English translation of Henestrosa, Mesegeuer and Scaglione's Cómo crear tipografías. Until recently there has been a dearth of books aimed at the beginning typeface designer;…6 -
Re: Callout for Japanese typefaces at MyFonts
Right. What this is likely to produce is: 1) Kana designs without a matching kanji set (unusable) 2) Designs with a relatively small kanji coverage (unusable) or 3) Designs produced by running a filt…5 -
Re: Origins of Python in Type Design
Just Van Rossum is a type designer. He was the one of the first to do really programmy things with fonts. His brother Guido invented Python.13 -
Re: Where is Arabic Italic originating from?
I'm not convinced by your katakana/hiragana distinction. Using katakana for foreign words is a relatively modern function. Both hiragana and katakana evolved from the Man'yogana script of the Man'yos…2
