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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 -
Re: Diaeresis/umlaut height
Type designers have to make up our own minds. These subtleties are imperceptible to the end reader, even those of Caflisch Script. The people who care are art directors, graphic designers and typogra…2
