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Re: Bulk Ligature Adding
The <rlig> feature would be more censorous, as it can’t be turned off, while can. Are you familiar with the <ignore> coding? You would have to use that, putting spaces/punctuation on eith…1 -
Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
Yes, Rodchenko barely admits it in the poster above. The best that can be said is that its small size harmonizes with the tiny kink that distinguishes K from H, and the little pointed “v” of M. The c…2 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Well Abi, as we’re talking about Goudy, he is well known as a late starter and was still breaking new ground in his ’40s and beyond—he was 46 when his first “signature” style, Kennerley, was publishe…4 -
Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
As a “semi serif” style, this typeface emphasizes that those dangly bits on /De and /de are not descenders, but serifs. Indeed, one finds their complete absence in much sans serif poster lettering of…7 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
The integration of large amounts of kerning into digital fonts has a bearing on proportion. The reason that L and T are so very narrow in Futura is to smooth out all-cap text colour, when no kerning …7
