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Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
Back in the metal type era, it was considered an achievement when type foundries standardized the position of the baseline. Normally, there were three standard positions; one for titling faces, a &qu…3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
The early laser printers contained the fonts inside themselves, rather than getting data on the shape of characters from a graphical operating system on the computer. The HP LaserWriter had Helvetica…2 -
Re: Full character set of Latin script
This discussion was certainly interesting. Ideally, one would like to have a reference source that covers all the languages which use the Latin alphabet, showing the characters used by each, and the …1 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
It took me some time to research this, but it turns out the modern "electric typewriter" keyboard arrangement was present on the 1925 Remington Electric, which was the first machine sold in…1 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
On the manual typewriter (in the USA English arrangement) " was the shift of 2, _ was the shift of 6, and ' was the shift of 8. Also, * was the shift of -, which was still on the right of 0 (ze…2
