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Re: What's this old metal arabic typeface?
And I thought it was just the word for "small"! But I see that you're right.As for the availability of typefaces, on Google Fonts, Amiri, Lateef, Mirza, Scheherazade New, and Katibeh, which…1 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
At this point, I think I understand enough of what you are saying to comment.It seems to me that what you refer to as the "advance" of a glyph is nothing more nor less than its "bound…1 -
Re: Tironian et ⁊ in Garamond
My initial reaction to the original post in this thread was that, while it was interesting, was it really a worthwhile project to add these characters to a Garamond if there weren't existing historic…2 -
Re: symbol ^ is used as power ( superscript ) in math, how about symbol for subscript?
For some purposes, parentheses are the symbol for subscript - both are used to indicate an element of an array. The caret used to be an up-arrow in an earlier version of ASCII, which is what suggeste…1 -
Re: Regular vs Book
Book isn't just a weight. It's (or, at least, it should be) a complete redesign of a typeface addressing many of its characteristics. For example, the typeface Aldus is really "Palatino Book&qu…1
