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Re: "All the old fellows stole our best ideas." Source?
I know it from how he used it as a couple of lines of text, beneath most of the full character showings in a self-penned monograph The Typophiles Chap Books XIII and XIV, A Half-Century of Type Desig…4 -
Re: italic ӕ in neogrotesque
It might help to consider the question as one of definitions. “Neo-grotesque” describes either: • An historical genre of mid-century modern typefaces such as Helvetica and Folio • Any new type design…3 -
Re: Calluna Sans as an alternative to Scala Sans, but...
To lighten a font in InDesign, for instance, go to the Stroke palette and apply a tiny amount of <Weight> in the background colour, presumably white. Of course, you will need to experiment to g…1 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
In metal, ligatures (e.g. fi) were distinguished from quaints (e.g. ct) and logotypes (e.g. Linotype To, which addressed the issue of kerning). That metal ontology is rather more precise than the pres…1 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
AFAIK, the sequence ąj does not exist in Polish. The sequence ą, is more relevant.1
