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Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
I’ll also note that anything I did say on Typophile twenty years ago does not necessarily reflect my current thinking.1 -
Re: Mixfont Update - seeking a designer to help complete an AI-generated font
Trust me, this ‘frustration’ — actually, a developing social-economic and historical analysis of AI in the context imperialism and colonialism — is not entirely directed towards you. But you’re the o…9 -
Re: Mixfont Update - seeking a designer to help complete an AI-generated font
If the British East India Company hadn’t seized control of India and looted it of its wealth and resources, the Dutch or the French companies would have.AI is digital colonialism. There are big entit…14 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
I don’t think anyone ever sat down and determined ‘The Cyrillic kratka should look different from the Latin breve,’ as a design principle. The kratka looks different because of its organic evolution …3 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
The marks shown on the older examples in those images are Old Slavonic diacritics derived from polytonic Greek accents and breathing marks, which are not the same thing as kratka.In this example from…3
