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Re: Does German Need a New Letter?
Your topic title is “does German need a new letter?” But your text is about a new ligature, similar to ffi and ffl. That would be a new and optional glyph, which is an entirely different thing. You s…1 -
Re: Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?
This is all good, Jamie! Yes, the caps are slightly less curvy than the lowercase, but it is all very subtle and works fabulously. It does not at all feel like these are from two different typefaces.2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Clearly the word “triumphant” was just meant to suggest the style, rather than suggest this is the particular style that has emerged victorious over all others. Hence why Christian was suggesting “he…1 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
I love oldstyle figures in general, but I suspect most people doing coding are going to want/expect lining figures. Even for me, in a coding context... I think I probably want lining figures, too.1 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
> ascenders and descenders are longer for more quickly identifiable "word shapes" This is descended from a popular myth about reading, which is mostly (though not entirely) untrue, as fa…2
