-
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
Claudio, it helps to remember that there are two different ways of grouping 'families' in OpenType: one way, corresponding to name table ID 1, groups into traditional 4-style families—Regular, Italic…4 -
Re: Letter-fitting and spacing research
I tried, and got about halfway through the second page before I gave up. I flagged what I thought were a few missing cap-to-lowercase kerning pairs in the first page, but as I went on I found myself …3 -
Re: The Silcrow is currently my nemesis
I usually align the height optically with the bottom of the tail of the Q (and the J if it is descending), which is usually a bit less deep than the lowercase descenders. And the section sign and par…4 -
Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Claudio: I understand the thinking, but because of the rôle of U+002D in automated hyphenation, I think it is best to think of that character as hyphen in terms of design: it should be identical to U…2 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
A true italic was also a characteristic of Frutiger Next, which came between Myriad and Segoe. As I recall, the Linotype case against Segoe was specifically that it infringed Frutiger Next.2
