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Re: Fontsleuth: Lego instructions from the 1970s?
Gender-progressive ideology is typical of the era. For instance, it was a time of unisex fashion (not perhaps for the majority, but a strong trend), in the UK and North America as well as Scandinavia…3 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
John, you are proposing to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted. What is to become of all the fonts with “proportional” em and en dashes? Pablo: http://typophile.com/node/277423 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
“What I'm referring to aren't just matters of some ancient world of print, but are as much a part of literary and business communications as ever before.” I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Just look at the…3 -
Re: Is it possible for a stylistic set to disable another stylistic set?
One way to do this is to make a duplicate set of glyphs with different sidebearings, and have that as a Stylistic Set. Or a separate font, which is easiest for you to make, and for users to access in…2 -
Re: Neology: a type design experiment in readability
Bill and Peter, I find it impossible to communicate to you what I think is so wrong about foisting the scientific conception of “readability” on type culture. I’ve conducted an experiment in readabil…1