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Re: Is this a 'w' ?
You already mentioned it in your original post – the origin for this construction can be traced to Blackletter, more precisely Fraktur. It also appears in older examples of English Roundhand. Especia…1 -
Re: Naming font styles in various languages
The common terms were “Schmale” (~condensed) and “Enge” (~extra condensed, compressed). “Schlanke” is pretty uncommon. It can stand in for either, see e.g. Schlanke Renaissance (AG für Schriftgießere…1 -
Re: Proper way of designing the “@” symbol
The at symbol is mainly used within lowercase, so it should be designed to look good in this context. Quite a few fonts have an alternate for all-caps settings. Aktiv Grotesk is one of them, see the …2 -
Re: On the use of blind texts
While working on his JAF Bernini, Tim Ahrens used the current version as the standard font in his browser, overruling the default fonts via custom CSS. This struck me as very practical and clever. Af…3 -
Re: What is your standard Latin character set?
Also keep in mind that Vietnamese is not restricted to Vietnam (This goes for all languages, to various degrees.) According to this source based on the US Census, there were almost 1.5 million Vietna…10
