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Re: Encoding the unencoded
FWIW, I think this is primarily a user experience problem, not a text encoding or font handling problem: we already know how to encode arbitrary diacritics based on base+mark sequences, and we alread…3 -
Re: What kind of impact did digital/social media have on fonts?
@PabloImpallari Internationalisation in software and fonts preceded social media; indeed, I would say that social media platforms became global, rather than being localised, because they could be bui…4 -
Re: Spacing sans serif body copy font
What Craig said, with the added proviso that for text fonts for body copy your basic spacing of uppercase should be uc-to-lc, i.e. tighter than all-caps typography. So I would check your diagonal upp…2 -
Re: How do you make a living as an independent type designer?
tiro.com is only a generic domain name for tyres or shooting—depending on language. That was my main point: ‘generic’ names are actually localised names.1 -
Re: How do you make a living as an independent type designer?
On the subject of invented vs generic names and short domains: I regularly receive inquiries about purchasing tiro.com, usually from European tyre companies, and occasionally from Iberian gun clubs. …3
