Peter Baker

The pedant medievalist in me has got to pipe up to say: (1) @"André G. Isaak" is right: textura is centuries in the future at the time of Æthelflæd: it would be rather like using Avenir to … (View Post)

@"Thomas Phinney" : I don't suppose you're including MS Word among "current apps." With Word not supporting salt or smcp or much else besides ssNN and calt, and a vast number of u… (View Post)


No one is saying that. It has been explained in this thread that current tools give you various ways to intervene between the extremes. The kind of craftsmanship you argue for so eloquently … (View Post)

For Glyphs users anyway (I can't speak about the other editors), the process of making a variable font is so very much like the process of making a conventional font family that the effort involved w… (View Post)

As one who has spent much of the last 45 years working with medieval scripts, I find the author's flat assertion that ligatures negatively affect legibility simply bizarre. In just about any western … (View Post)