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Re: How about a two-stroke Upsilon (like U-cy)?
Adam, the 'modern Greek alphabet in the ancient style' image from Shutterstock that you posted is not an accurate representation of ancient or archaic Greek letters. As soon as you see that…2 -
Re: How about a two-stroke Upsilon (like U-cy)?
Mouse over the image: 'modern Greek alphabet in the ancient style'. Adam had suggested this — with a smiley, suggesting he knows it's bogus — as a possible precedent. As I pointed out,…1 -
Re: The Morisawa competition is open.
The purpose of the competition, for Morisawa, is to identify new and unreleased typefaces — both Japanese and Latin — that they might want to publish. As someone else noted, this is similar in intent…5 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It's worth considering why that would be the case. I consider consistent texture or 'colour' a byproduct of the actually beneficial design goal. What we're really talking about is…3 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It wasn't concocted by Aldus: scribes had been using different styles of letters to differentiate and emphasise content, including using formal upright and cursive slanted styles together. Simil…4
