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Making Windows Fonts Do Something They Shouldn't
Back before there was OpenType, and before Windows had Unicode support, if someone wanted to type text in Georgian or Greek or Armenian, they had to use a special font that printed the glyphs for the…0 -
Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
Absolutely, therefore, where natural languages have adopted glyph shapes for their letters from the IPA, they should have proper support in any typeface claiming to support those languages. But whil…0 -
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 stand for…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, the stand…0
