Here is what is written on my old Nikon 105mm lens. The letter f stands for the focal length, 105mm, and is neither slanted nor hooked; 1:2.5 means that the diameter of the largest aperture is the fo… (View Post)
In Sofie Beier's Ph.D. thesis Typeface Legibility: towards defining familiarity we can read on page 59 One way of preventing the ink from dissolving the letterforms in the smaller sizes is by opening… (View Post)
Over the n, I see a tilde, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde. Over the i, I must confess that the line looks a bit too long to my taste indeed but I am no sanskritist. (View Post)
I was always fascinated by an italic f used in Springer's Ergebnisse der Mathematik. Here is from Behnke & Thullen, Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränlichen, Zweite erweiterte Auflag… (View Post)
You are right. The fact is that I generated a pdf from the Page file of which there is a grab above and I tried to copy the line displayed in Noto and paste it in TextEdit and got garbage but I now … (View Post)