John Savard

Basically, I'm reluctant to believe anyone was outright dishonest. So on the one hand, I reject the conclusion that Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent connived to steal the work of Starling Burgess. … (View Post)


 Except for the fact that bad times for type designers are already here, since font piracy and webfonts are things of the present, the reference to a "too-soon-arriving future" puz… (View Post)

This deserves a brief comment. Obviously, a French keyboard had better include a way to enter all the accented letters used for French. AFAIK, most do accomplish that - but only for lower-case. And s… (View Post)

As it happens, on my web site (in response to a news item on the French government looking for a better computer keyboard that supported capital accented letters) I gave an illustration of a potentia… (View Post)

It turns out I was mistaken; the glyphs for Cyrillic characters outside of Russian are the same as in non-Bulgarian fonts like Courier New. Not realizing where the Serbian codepoints were and not bei… (View Post)