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Re: Optical compensations and writing tools
Are we going to repeat every single Typophile discussion on TypeDrawers? Formal writers regularly rotate the pen or brush to write Z with a thicker downstroke: that is part of the ductus of this lett…6 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
I thought we established years ago, on Typophile, that even the most calligraphically inspired typeface design is at most parachirographic in nature, because of a) the distinctive aspects of the medi…10 -
Re: Old-style (minuscule) zero in Black weight serif
The opposite is also viable, and I think creates a stronger impression in sequences such as I originally designed the Brill text 0 with the heavy side on the left, but was unhappy with how feeble it …2 -
Re: OpenType feature to transform (c) to ©
(c) is not equivalent to © The copyright symbol © is legally significant in some jurisdictions and circumstances (e.g. in the US for works published before 1 March 1989), and representing it in text …9 -
Re: iOS vs Windows Line Height Issue
Fonts contain multiple sets of vertical metrics, which are used by and interpreted differently on different platforms. Even when you set all the vertical metrics to be compatible, the different inter…6
