Peter Baker

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)

I think you're right that Google wouldn't be interested in funding a project that requires work at irregular intervals indefinitely, far into the future. I've also experienced what you're talking abo… (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)


I wouldn't be surprised if the historians argue about it. The conventional wisdom (=good enough for literary scholars) is that the last king of Mercia died during the reign of Alfred, and af… (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)