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Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Oh, and here is a lovely example of cursively connected numerals, from Geroge Snell’s The Art of Writing (1712).2 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
The J-like 1 is very common in the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Netherlands and England, especially in the more upright styles. It is a frequent form in the copybooks of English writing masters, as…9 -
Re: Best practices for multi-script families
We subset some of our families (using the Tiro Builder tool) and give customers the option to license either complete fonts or script-specific subsets. I don’t think we have any multi-script subsets,…2 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
Re. nodes at extrema, note that a lot of us are generating both TTF and CFF from our design sources, and failing to put nodes at curve extrema in TrueType messes up bounding box calculations. That’s …6 -
Re: Commissioned Retail Font: questions/seeking advice
That budget is very low. Unless the character set were extremely limited—in which case the retail value is also diminished—, I wouldn’t consider this remotely feasible. Every font project involves wo…5
