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)


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)

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)


The flex hint, explained here: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/T1_SPEC.PDF on pp. 72-3. The round apex doesn't have to be exactly in the middle, but the other requirements are qu… (View Post)