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Re: Units per em
Given that 18 units per em was good enough for Monotype, on the one hand no doubt 1000 units per em is enough, but on the other hand, a number of units that is a multiple of 18 would provide compatib…1 -
Re: 656565656
To me, the 5 and 6 look very much the same at the top, and also the same at the bottom, but I'm less sure. With the 8 and the 0, at first the 8 looked bigger, and later, the 0 looked bigger.1 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
I don't know a word of Arabic, but to me, the third one looked as though the stroke width was uniform, so the thinner vertical lines may be a simple optical correction for reasons that are not depend…3 -
Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
I would put it this way: with a large x-height, and with open counters, newspaper type has to lack certain features that suggest grace and delicacy. That does not mean that it cannot be designed with…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
