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Re: Funtauna (rectangular slab serif)
Well, /i/l/j are always the tricky parts of doing a mono! Are they optically centered? They look like they need to be pushed to the right by ten units or so. Are you really doing this in METAFONT? Im…1 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
“Qazaqstan” is tremendously satisfying to type on a qwerty keyboard.10 -
Re: Could we hack into designing a Persian/Arabic braille font?
Right. This kind of work can be done much more easily at the text level than at the font level. Trying to modify text by modifying the font is a misguided approach.1 -
Re: Efficiency in kerning pairs
On one hand I hear people talking about thousands of kern pairs. On the other I hear people like Andreas saying "space everything as well as you can, then kern only what is necessary", and …3 -
Re: Norse Sans, Geometric & Grotesque
I don't think someone's first ever typeface is meant to mature into a new or useful thing, any more than one's first story will turn into a bestselling novel. It's a learning exercise, and if you tre…5
