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Re: Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?
Not much, and in the early days of DTP Adobe fonts used to leave those code points glyphless, IIRC. Taking that as a cue for their irrelevance, I filled up those spots with other goodies such as extr…3 -
Re: Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?
I’ve always italicized them in italic fonts. They look silly otherwise in text that is predominantly italic. Now that math symbols are included in basic encoding, there’s no need to have them indepen…7 -
Re: Generating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
I make the Regular first. It embodies and clarifies the ethos of the typeface best, in particular stroke contrast, angle of stress and cadence (the new word for rhythm/colour—Erik Spiekermann and oth…3 -
Re: Releasing Cyrillic for an existing Latin family
The basic Cyrillic encoding (1251) includes a very basic Latin character set, with no accents—good enough for English.2 -
Re: Carry on or stop?
Who knows where the “technical” challenge will lead? Ed Benguiat, a phenomenal draftsman, drew/cut/painted stuff like this for PLINC, if I’m not mistaken; now the tools are quite different, but the c…1
