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Re: Happy 20th Birthday, OpenType!
That press release is more marriage announcement (of royalty, with offspring in mind) than birth announcement. The gestation was elephantine in duration, InDesign 1.5 being the first major applicatio…1 -
Re: Help me pick the /n/
It’s a good idea to consider the awkward character sequences in which ‘n’ is second—in the word “kern”, for instance, and when preceded by v, y or w. Also sequences such as “ini”, in which presumably…2 -
Re: Should we tell Adobe how bad the Illustrator UI is for drawing with beziers?
I abandoned Illustrator 25 years ago, when it became bloated with featuritis. Till that time, it was great, but afterwards geared towards fancy effects, not basic drawing, which paradoxically became …2 -
Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
I think PostScript, with its attention to hinting, especially alignment zones, has given an importance to the baseline, and created a semantic groove that present day type designers can easily fall i…5 -
Re: New Google Fonts + Bungee, Scope One, Space Mono
Space Mono, a good companion for emoji face types.2
