John Savard

  • Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)

    Ah, but they did get reformed that way - for sans-serif types, like New Hellenic. In that, I think, is the answer to your question. There was no available tradition of a Greek uncial that would have…
  • Re: Cherokee!

    I agree it's not up to us to make that decision. When people from the Cherokee nation asked for help in making font support for their language available on computers it was a good thing to respond t…
  • Re: Cherokee!

    This has led me to look around on the Web, and I found the following two articles: https://neilk.net/blog/2002/06/01/undesigning-cherokee-syllabary/ http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2012/1…
  • Re: Only one font format

    Make up your mind. If you stop supporting "all the old stuff to be always backward compatible", then that's exactly when the poor end-user, who had bought fonts in the old font formats, no…
  • Re: Only one font format

    This is an interesting statement. OpenType was intended as something that would extend TrueType to permit new features - but also to support easy conversion of Adobe Type2 fonts. So presumably OpenT…
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