Nick Shinn · President

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  • Re: What non-English ligatures are there?

    AFAIK, the sequence ąj does not exist in Polish. The sequence ą, is more relevant.
  • Re: Zooby

    If you want the Shadow version to have smoother typographic colour (as determined by its positive/black elements), you will have to adapt the Plain version in anticipation. The H and U, for instance,…
  • Re: Millennial Oldstyle

    Right. They go together. My practice is to: 1. Omit figures from the smcp feature 2. Provide small-cap-lining figures in c2sc (both tab and prop) 3. Where the font’s lining figures are 3/4 height, al…
  • Re: Small Caps Practice

    Right. The main use of small caps is in mixed case setting, with minuscules and majuscules, so changing punctuation is wrong. For all small caps (c2sc), you have to decide whether there is any benefi…
  • Re: Revivals?

    I think there is enough “transformative” (in the copyright sense) work required by digitizing a font from a letterpress printing, to constitute an original design—provided that (a) the model is not o…
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