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Punctuation education
I can thoroughly recommend this brilliant book, which I recently came across, as having some relevance to type designers—especially in showing instances of how punctuation marks appear in grammatical…4 -
Re: Drawing greek letters
Don’t just look at the alphabet, try it in Greek text. (I give the same advice for all language scripts.)4 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
Εἰκὼν Βασιλική, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, 1658. A work of royalist propaganda published shortly after the King’s execution by the republican government …1 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
No John, there is no bold, that came two hundred years after my source! (Despite being such a purist, I am retconning, if that is the correct term, a few characters, such as capital Eszett, which I c…1 -
Re: The I ogonek in sans-serif monospaced typefaces
It depends on the genre of typeface. If it’s chirographic, put the squiggle over to the right, as it may have been written at the letter’s ending. If it’s more “geometric,” put it in the middle. Also…3
