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Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
Dave, from a text processing perspective, Adam's TTC solution is definitely superior to PUA, because the background text remains clean Unicode. There are issues, though. One is the absence of cr…1 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Talk of the WRIT project research reminded me of this presentation, which I gave during the pre-conference tech sessions at TypeCon 2008. No commentary, just the slides: African Alphabets (2008)3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
That's a pretty good combining mark subset, Ray. I'd add the combining cedilla U+0327, because I always use the combining mark glyphs to make composites. And U+0315 is useful for the Slovak…2 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
The WGL4 set, when originally published in the late 90s, helpfully distinguished 'core' characters, necessary for language support, from optional characters such as the line- and boxdraw ch…1 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
That's not 'the way the Web works'; that's the way bad run integration works. The idea that a CSS span applied to characters automatically creates a distinct run for glyph process…4
