John Hudson

  • Re: ₪ serif?

    I'd like to, but the trouble is that script itemisation in OTL processing may not roll numerals into glyph runs with Hebrew characters, so a hebr script locl feature may not be applied. Testing …
  • Re: Ordinal »i« and InDesign 7.0.4

    BTW, many folks (including me) would argue that OpenType features should never change the character code. This statement needs parsing, I think. OpenType Layout features never do change the character…
  • Re: Teaching about the "bone effect"

    Yes, it's an optical illusion, so it needs to be demonstrated, not explained. By the way, it is more pronounced when the straight segments are vertical than when they are horizontal.
  • Re: The letter S

    If you look at where sign painters (or calligraphers) start and finish the spine section, it isn't so different. The key thing is that the left and right extrema of the curves are in a known pos…
  • Re: The letter S

    I long ago realised that the trick to making an S — for me at least — is to completely ignore the middle section until the end, and to concentrate on a mental image of the top and bottom relative to …
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