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Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Black maximizes contrast (especially on the not-very-white paper used by the scribes) and was probably easiest to manufacture. Also, switching colors very much was a pain-in-the-neck for the scribes.…2 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
But color is still something a type designer might decide to offer as a dimension of communication.4 -
Re: Home office vs. office
I have trouble in total silence, so whenever I can I put TV shows in languages I don't know in the background. The music I listen to is almost always in languages I don't know.4 -
Re: Units per em
No specifics about 1000 assumption, sorry. Mostly very old stuff. Sort of like how COBOL is still around. :-) When MS [co-]created TrueType they conceived of and confirmed the speed advantage.1 -
Re: Units per em
Unless you have a good reason to not use 1000, use 1000, since some software still assumes it. An Em that's a power of two (typically 2048) is reputed to result in faster rasterization, but it's prob…1
