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Re: Michelangelus typeface from the Vatican
The cursive italics of a typeface are intended to convey emphasis; handwriting is simply a means of expressing text. So for the cursive portion of a typeface to be sloped more than the handwriting th…1 -
Re: How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics
The capital AE ligature in English achieves compactness by making the right downstroke of the A vertical rather than inclined; clearly, that's an option for a Cyrillic L based on the Greek lambd…2 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
Since I couldn't stand Wuthering Heights in high school, I had failed to look this stuff up. A quick web search has since remedied my ignorance. I see that the Brontë sisters' father was th…1 -
Amusing YouTube Video
An amusing YouTube video, with the title "I am the Very Model of a Modern-day Typographer", just went up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ck-NPqf2c8 It is Elle Cordova who granted us this …7 -
Re: Are typefaces for writing different from typefaces for reading?
I was trying to think of some reason to use monospace. And tabular matter or even just point form lists were the only straw I could grasp - I did not have a solid case for monospace in hand. So I don…1
