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Re: Serifed Schwa
Yes Igor, similarity between /ə and /a in body text is an important Schwa issue, especially in two-storey /a italics. That Recursive tactic is clever! On the other hand, Western readers of Futura etc…1 -
Re: (OpenType programming) Dynamic ligatures
This kind of contextual substitution has been exploited by many cursive script fonts since the introduction of OpenType, originally by Caflisch Script, 20 years ago. I would imagine there are primers…1 -
Re: Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
Here is why I make © cap height. With regards to the page as a whole, it’s a category of glyph that aligns with capitals, not as you theorize a category of its own, aligning with the centre of the x-…2 -
Re: My text face wish list
Very clever. Those are remarkably similar to the primes in the Symbol font—but easier to navigate to than via a glyph palette.1 -
Re: Geometric Blackletter
As Jean Cocteau once said (more or less, and in French), develop what people dislike in your work, because it is you. Of course blackletter caps are at the dark end of the legibility scale, especiall…2
