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New (to me) Resources for Doves Type
I recently made the exciting discovery that the five-volume Bible from the Doves Press was available online at the Library of Congress.There were some other items from the Doves Press there that were…1 -
Re: Transforming Typeface Design: Moving Beyond Gutenberg and Roman Traditions
It may well be true that designing typefaces with a mindset keyed to Roman characters and mediaeval penmanship limits their applicability to new media in the digital age. But I was amused when I read…2 -
Re: Unicode insanity
Yes, of course, just as with the GPL. But there is also the BSD license, which is why we have Darwin within OS X. So all there has to be is one font out there which implements a massive chunk of Uni…1 -
Re: What is sharp S
It is true that beauty is an aesthetic judgment, and thus personal and subjective.Just as there are beautiful Scotch Roman typefaces - and hideous ones that were all too common in 19th Century print…1 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
Text editors that only use fixed-width typefaces, because they're intended for editing computer programs, rarely offer their users the option of turning advanced OpenType features on and off. So…3
