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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 -
Re: The beginning of the end
I don't see anything in there about a change in the price of the font licenses. I'll grant you that an increase in convenience will make some difference. But compared to a) Google Fonts, an…0 -
Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р
I would not wish the Russian people to have suffered after the fall of the Soviet Union as the German people suffered after the fall of the Third Reich. But it is no more admissible for Russians to h…0 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Here is another illustration of the sort of thing I propose: For the upper case, SS and SZ, as ligatures or even as logograms, like the Dutch IJ. For the lower case, the Antiqua ſs and ſz or ſʒ ligatu…0 -
Re: Units per em
Given that 18 units per em was good enough for Monotype, on the one hand no doubt 1000 units per em is enough, but on the other hand, a number of units that is a multiple of 18 would provide compatib…1