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Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
Somehow I don't think that having IPA text in Caslon, while the normal text is in Times or Univers, will lead people to think that the IPA glyph that looks like the Latin lowercase g might stan…0 -
Is There Such a Thing as a Crystal Goblet?
A famous essay by Beatrice Warde used the metaphor of the ideal wine glass to illustrate the function of typography. She argued that typography should be, effectively, invisible, serving to unobtrusi…1 -
Re: Vietnamese diacritic ascender adjustments
Well, I'm assuming that a font should be designed to work perfectly in the programs that are already existing out there, from WordPad on up. If they don't correctly implement the standard,…0 -
Re: Playing around with Venetians
Not just at the time of Nicholas Jenson. Before 1990 or thereabouts too. For example, it's like a capital I in Garamond. This is a very recent innovation. At least the first time I noticed it w…0 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
The conclusion to be drawn from the situation you cite is obvious. The market for paid fonts will largely evaporate once somebody makes a free clone of either Times, Century Expanded, or Baskerville…1
