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Re: Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0
Usually context will clearly disambiguate, which means the disruption of too much height (and thereby size, considering the hefty shapes of many numerals) is overkill; a width difference is plenty. F…4 -
Re: Website for Type Brief or Challenge Generator Name?
It must have simply been copied from TypeCooker... but it actually doesn't make sense there either. There are so many ways to teach, and so many kinds of students.1 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
Oh indeed. My letterpress teacher (Gerald Lange) always said you could tell how good a printer was by how much they mutilated their sorts. :-) @@"Helmut Wollmersdorfer" Yes! https://www.fl…2 -
Re: Fitting cubic Bézier curves
There's a much better reason than a minute difference in shape for marking explicit inflection points: converting to quadratic béziers (which can happen in software, without oversight) is far less l…3 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
Nonetheless one must offer deep gratitude to outsiders who keep the establishment thinking.3