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Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Rotation of the nib during writing occurs both as an unintended outcome of the way the writer moves and as a deliberate ductal manipulation. This is why mechanical or digital stroke creation in which…5 -
Re: Single-descender Cyrillic de
That hard sign construction is conventional in italics, so translates quite well to an informal type with elements of hand lettering.4 -
Re: Devanagari Critique
Yes, and other examples. These seem to me very different ways of constructing shapes, each imparting a particular character to the overall design if consistently applied. If the typeface uses two dif…1 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Relative proportion in typeface design is complex, because it is both broadly conventional and also particularly idiomatic (and historically also varied somewhat by country, e.g. following Garamond, …7 -
Re: Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
Hmm. Based on what you report, I would be worried that Windows might have an algorithm that treats 'Ultra' as a weight style name. That's just the sort of undocumented behaviour software developers l…4
