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Re: 'Modernist' solutions for the ogonek
You’ve included various things in your images. There is no C or S with ogonek. These are glyphs for Ç窺 (or Șș), i.e. no ogoneks, but cedilla or comma accents. Yes, Albert-Jan Pool went for modernis…4 -
Re: i = dotlessi + dotaccent
The e with dot (ė) is pretty much exclusive to the Lithuanian spelling. From what I’ve heard and seen from native typographers, they’d consider the example shown above as erroneous, and would prefer…1 -
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
