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Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
Don't worry, I think co-opting IBM's font identity is the last thing any "budding rival of IBM" that wanted to establish any sort of credibility would want to do. I will definite…2 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
It's true that we don't call Sweden Sveriges in English, despite seeing that is its real name from their postage stamps. But it is a common practice in English to take foreign words and re…1 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
As I noted, back in the 1970s, ij would have appeared on the keyboards of computer terminals in the Netherlands, because it was part of the Dutch national versions of 7-bit ASCII under ISO 646, even…2 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
I think you would have to wait until 2025, the target date is noted in the Wikipedia article; the conversion to the Latin alphabet will be a gradual one, people there are not expected to learn to re…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
While I've noted myself that the usual practice with italic versions of sans-serif typefaces is for them to be slanted versions of the normal version, some of the comments here on this issue hav…1
