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Re: On the logic of bearing for Italic
@"mauro sacchetto" However, several classic serif faces have notably wider sidebearings on /I. Standardization may seem like a good idea, but I have to wonder whether this “cut and paste” e…4 -
Re: The Number sign—now and then—across languages.
It would be cool if the Cyrillic-concept № were also in the standard Western encoding, it’s a fun glyph to design—not too difficult but some room for interpretation.1 -
Re: The Number sign—now and then—across languages.
@"Claudio Piccinini" Me too. And doing that for figures usually requires no adjustment for #hashtag usage. The trick is to get it to work with both lining and oldstyle figures.2 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
I can see it might be useful for the textured stuff Ray mentions, but for me, I’ve tried it a few times on solid types, and it took so long to clean up the autotracing, why bother, so I just manually…2 -
Re: Knuth Scotch
On the one hand, his father was a printer, so it may be assumed that Mr Knuth was aware of the effects of rendering process on type form, but on the other, as he once remarked (not about CM) "Be…5
