I find the cubic bezier splines of the major font editors quite clunky to draw with. The spiros of FontForge, and the similar curvature tool of Illustrator, are better, and Inkscape's b-splines are a… (View Post)
I spent much of the morning playing with Inkscape because of this post, and I agree that B-splines are amazing, and not only for italics. I'm not sure they're better than spiros, but both aim to solv… (View Post)
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)