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Re: Implementing OpenType calt or init with Latin script in 2024
The init, medi, fina, and isol features are now explicitly defined as implementing Unicode joining behaviour for e.g. Arabic. The earlier descriptions of these features in the OT features registry mi…3 -
Re: A new Art Deco, and the hunt for Broadway Greek/Cyrillic
I’m not familiar with Greek or Cyrillic in this specific style, but there are definitely examples of Art Deco Cyrillic lettering and typography. Look for e.g. Russian film posters of the period.2 -
Re: Serifed Schwa
Brill publish hundreds of titles with this kind of content every year. I can see raising the crossbar of the schwa, although this authorship/readership very much interpret the letterform as a rotated…5 -
Re: Serifed Schwa
Another project, for the University of British Columbia, in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language.7 -
Re: How do you maintain letter-form consistency?
I tend not to record a lot of measurements, because the font source is it’s own record. I will tend to treat a small number of glyphs as key references, and refer back to them for standard measuremen…1