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Re: Ornaments and Unicode
Frequent users of arrows and other characters that are hard to input via the keyboard should better set up such shortcuts as text replacements, be it via the System Preferences in OS X (Keyboard → Te…7 -
Re: First typeface with a name?
In his Reading essay about the development of clarendon/ionic typefaces, Mitja Miklavčič mentions that “[i]n October of 1845 the name ‘Clarendon’ was registered” and quotes Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin w…4 -
Re: r rotunda in inscriptions
Nina, I’ve shared a few photos of inscriptions that show the r rotunda on Flickr. If there ever were strict rules about when to use it, not every letter carver got the memo. In this 18th century epit…3 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Nick mentioned Dear Sarah. P22 Cézanne Pro and Nick’s own Handsome were released around 2005, too. Some more (earlier) digital script font pioneers: • Caflisch Script by Robert Slimbach (Adobe). The …1 -
Re: Is this a 'w' ?
Albert – sorry, equal signs (=) don’t work in Flickr tags. Please suggest something else. Maxim and Craig, yes, I’d say they follow the same logic. Besides Walbaum-Fraktur, Maxim’s example shows the …1