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Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
The term revival applied to the mid-19th Century use of Caslon really means a revival of use of Caslon, which had fallen out of fashion for some decades. The foundry provided electrotyped matrices to…2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
U+00B7 is frequently used as encoding of ano teleia, but the /periodcentered/ glyph is usually sitting too low for ano teleia, which should align with the top dot of ; and :. So it's helpful to …1 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
I do this in all my Greek fonts. Note that it is also the convention for polytonic accents in modern use. Everything gets suppressed in all-caps settings except the dialytika (dieresis). Note that th…7 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
If a font contains U+034F, then yes, it should probably be zero-width, no-outline, and the same obviously true for U+200B. U+200C and U+200D are a little different. They can be no-outline glyphs, but…5 -
Re: Seb Lester's doodles, calligraphy or lettering?
The terminology varies by practice and profession. For instance, the people who write the text in comic books are credited with lettering them. Craig's suggestion that 'lettering' be t…6
