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Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
This conforms to English usage in the 17th & 18th century. Make it a Stylistic Set, as the Hist feature is not supported by layout applications. lookup hist1 { sub s by longs; } hist1; lookup his…3 -
Re: Typeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
That’s not something I would be proud of Ray, but any publicity is good publicity, right? It was slightly ironic to see the GDC president touting Canadian type design: the GDC corporate face appears …1 -
Re: Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving
The number is less eroded than the rest of the inscription, so clearly more recent.1 -
Re: Automating PANOSE data
I stopped giving my fonts Panose values when I discovered that there are some layout applications which use those values, over-riding other font data and creating conflicts. I can’t remember any of t…6 -
Re: Small Caps for sans serifs bad?
Prior to digital, art directors rarely specified sans for body text, and when we did, we kept things minimal, in the Swiss manner—so no small caps there. Consequently, small cap sans fonts were not o…3
