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Re: En dash = width of n?
I start out making my dashes the “proper” width – but it doesn’t always look good, so I often depart from convention. There’s nothing wrong with that—it exploits the opportunity for enhanced function…1 -
Re: Copying punches?
Right. A plaster “matrix” made from a tooled type “punch” would have had limited usability. Thanks for your erudition, everybody! One other thing that occurs to me: there were very few characters in …1 -
Re: Question: Why are foot serifs cupped?
Yes, but so was the feeling I got when I gave the round caps a greater absolute height. I suspect that the “undershoot” of cupped serifs harmonizes nicely with overshoot in general, and is part of th…1 -
Re: Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
If there were a separate language code for North American English, then we could make the <quoteleft> glyph (2018) look like an apostrophe, especially for display styles. That would make sense,…1 -
Re: favourite sources for metal type research
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, by Matt McGrew. Very comprehensive.7
