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Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
I just spent some time browsing fonts on typekit and was surprised by the number of fonts I came across which had a blank .notdef character. What's worse, a few had blank, zero-width .notdef cha…10 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
Even this, though, could be mistaken for some sort of ‘help’ character. I don’t know that it’s possible to prevent all users from mistaking the .notdef glyph for an actual character. (I mean unless y…6 -
Re: User friendly family naming
I think the problem here is simply that there are only a small handful of words in English that have been used to designate type widths, and other English terms tied to width would likely be interpre…1 -
Re: What is a contemporary typeface?
I have a tough time keeping track, but I believe that Neo-Post-Après-Postmodèrne is the current term.2 -
Re: Combining Diacritics Positioning
Using a negative positioning so they sit over the ‘o’ seems like a better strategy. Remember that not all applications support mark-positioning, so it’s best to position them in a way that works best…1
