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Re: The Script Style of House Numbers
I didn’t design my house numbers, but worked with John Downer who hand-painted them for me. The shapes are based on his Iowan Oldstyle, but with proportions and stroke weights adjusted to read well f…2 -
Re: Which form of the Cyrillic lowercase ghe with a stroke (uni0493) is preferable in the italics?
The cursive form with flatter bar is what I am most used to seeing (so like Gentium and Source Serif). The Tinos and Times versions look wrong to me: this is a barred letter, and their little slashes…4 -
Re: A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
Thinking aloud: If foundries want accurate information on aggregated sites, maybe there should be an openly defined data format for information that foundries would maintain themselves and that would…7 -
Re: Monotonic Greek in double encoded unicase fonts
To confirm my understanding: this is an all-caps font, and you are expecting text to be displayed with the tonos mark suppressed, even at the beginning of words, correct? It can get a little more com…1 -
Re: Monotonic Greek in double encoded unicase fonts
I don’t know what the frequency is. The point is that this is an orthographic rule that is possible to catch at the glyph level, but not if the cmap has already removed the distinction between accent…2
