John Savard

  • Re: Why is this hard to read?

    The letter A, like the letter g, is not closed at the top. So it is ambiguous; instead of "Augusta", it could be Cuigustci, except for the "i"s not being dotted, or even Cuicjustc…
  • Re: En dash = width of n?

    Thomas Phinney said: Monospaced? Where did I say anything claiming that Times Roman should be monospaced? (I suspect the source of the confusion is that you weren't familiar with the meaning of the t…
  • Re: En dash = width of n?

    Yes, I totally agree.With one caveat.I agree it would be silly to change the width of an en space, or a 3-to-em space, and so on, for any reason other than "rounding to the grid".However, …
  • Re: Latinized Greek

    Oh dear. Now you've opened up a can of worms. I think we can all agree that Greek literary papyri of the 1st century AD (or even the 1st century CE) are authentically Greek. From "The Paleograph…
  • Re: Latinized Greek

    I don't think that I disagree with you, although it might seem that way.The kind of Greek typefaces that I regard as Latinized will probably have no other choice than to use p for rho and x for chi.…
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