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Re: Chess Diagram Characters
I see that the mold you have pictured must be a very old example, since the black pieces are on the bottom of the diagram. While having black at the top is an almost universal convention, even in the…1 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
...or, for that matter, in French. But in both cases, y is acting as a vowel. As far as I know, Cyrillic does not engage in such shenanigans; letters are either vowels or consonants, and do not chang…2 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
My position is that I agree with you that there's no need to Latinize Armenian, but I disagree with the idea that Cyrillic letterforms should go back to what existed before Peter the Great. The Cyri…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
I almost agree. Italics are, indeed, slanted letters. So mechanically obliqued Roman is a kind of italic, even if it is not considered to be the best kind. Since, though, traditionally, most italics…1 -
Re: Does that “y” exist?
Clearly I'm no professional type designer. The only thing I could see (apparently) wrong with the typeface sample that began this thread was that the capital Y should have had a shallower V-part and …2
