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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: Condensed Typography
Being a primer, it doesn’t go too deep into this topic, but Jan Middendorp’s Shaping Text, to which I had the honor to contribute, has half a page about condensed type. The page is included in a (low…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: Naming font styles in various languages
As long as it is about clearly defined terms such as small caps, this can be useful. For more ambiguous things such as weights, I’m skeptical. Font makers can’t agree whether Thin is lighter than Ext…3 -
Re: This is not good
But it was quite cool when it was new, no? See L’écrivain (“The Writer”), one of the four automata by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, created in 1774. https://youtu.be/bY_wfKVjuJM https://youtu.be/ux2KW20nqHU1