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Re: Type design hot takes
@"Andreas Stötzner" I always found Helvellyn rather picturesque. I never even realized it had a typeface named after it, let alone a bad one. Now I am intrigued…1 -
Re: Type Design Technical Advances
Surely "smart font" technology (OpenType and predecessors like QuickDraw GX) deserves some mention. Also, the advent of Unicode.3 -
Re: Where to place special characters in a font
The one advantage of doing the latter is that if the font is unavailable special characters in a document are more likely to show up as .notdef boxes than as random letters or numbers which might be…3 -
Re: Is German Not in Need of a New Letter?
Not just in English mllllon, but also the wellll-known Wellllsh placename Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Of course, these are no match for Swift’s lllllputlans.1 -
Re: What is the correct term for combining italic lowercase with upright roman caps?
Delphin is an odd choice for that cover. Having driven across Saskatchewan many times, I think something more uniformly boring would have been more appropriate :-)3
