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Re: first use of arrows to indicate directions...
The "this way to the brothel" footprint is in the pavement in Ephesus, on the road between the temple of Diana and the forum. It's a fun place for typographers to visit.5 -
Re: “Procedural” design software concept?
Simpler is better than more complicated and evolutionary is better than revolutionary until you've proved that evolutionary isn't enough. You don't need to build a whole new font editing engine based…3 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
Pablo: Thanks! That's not a great scan, but I've had a crack at cleaning it up and making it printable. I've put the first volume at http://www.simon-cozens.org/updike/vol1.pdf (76Mb download). I hap…1 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
As an absolute beginner: I appreciated Designing Type as a useful reference, but it suffers from being woefully, woefully misnamed. Really, it should have been called something like Characteristics a…9 -
Re: Programming ligatures and `locl`
It's worse than that. The features in these fonts don't mess with the underlying data stream - they provide ligatures which look like other characters but actually aren't them. So != will look (a bit…2
