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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
After I posted that, I thought of Æ and Œ. Of course, they, like W, if considered as a ligature for V V, or the Dutch IJ, all do retain the full capital form of the joined letters. A ligature for SS …3 -
Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
I do remember seeing them illustrated in the document from which I learned of their existence. It was a book or paper on typography, and it may be available online. I will see if I can find it again…2 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
This discussion has reminded me of an important difference between the kind of font one would order from ATF or Kelsey and a TrueType font file. If one wanted to typeset an entire book, a single 20-a…3 -
Re: "W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
Caledonia is a very popular typeface; one very tiny footnote to the career of W. A. Dwiggins that few people know is this: the symbols "dek" and "el", used for a while by the Duod…3 -
The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter
Books and web pages frequently include tables of the four different versions of each letter of the Arabic alphabet, initial, final, medial, and isolated. This does not do justice to the Naksh script;…5
