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Re: A Grand Romance
For truly grand, something with a small x-height. Because that means it has to be set at quite a large point size for adequate visibility, with a small character count per square cm/in. In other word…2 -
Re: The origins of letter-spaced justification
I will have a look in Frank Romano’s The History of Phototypesetting—there may be something in there, although not immediately apparent from the index. What I find fascinating is the perception, in 1…2 -
Re: Where to place special characters in a font
The good news: In any application with a “glyphs” palette (nothing to do with the font editor), a group of arrows will be easy for users to find. Characters such as the primes are much harder to loca…1 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
Ori, Helvetica has no original kerning.4 -
Re: which is a better format to copy paste or import into font program?
FontLab offers several EPS import options: • Keep size (1 EPS pt = 1 UPM unit) • Fit between Ascender and Descender • Fit between Ascender and Baseline. You can also create a box of standard size, pl…4
