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Re: Ignoring Extremum in Flared Serif?
Nodes as extrema are primarily necessary for hinting, so if a location does not need a hint link, then the nodes can be omitted. My own inclination is usually to include nodes if doing so does not di…9 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
It can be argued, certainly, with plenty of evidence towards this conclusion in a European context. The application of the same standardised production methods to non-European writing systems often p…1 -
Re: Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, Ђ, Џ
Perhaps Krista Radoeva’s articles? Cyrillic Script Variations and the Importance of Localisation Extended Cyrillic: Bulgarian3 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
FWIW, I think this is primarily a user experience problem, not a text encoding or font handling problem: we already know how to encode arbitrary diacritics based on base+mark sequences, and we alread…3 -
Re: What kind of impact did digital/social media have on fonts?
@PabloImpallari Internationalisation in software and fonts preceded social media; indeed, I would say that social media platforms became global, rather than being localised, because they could be bui…4