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Re: Most common kern pairs
Very few, in fact. Almost all letter pair combinations occur in some language or other. Even uppercase-to-lowercase, word-initial pairs are attested for almost all combinations: https://docs.google.c…1 -
Re: Is this a Gill Sans Variant?
Also, this variant of Gill Sans has always been of categorical interest, since it straddles the presumed boundary between ur Humanist and ur Geometric designs.1 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
It was specifically to address one aspect of such situations that ATypI voted to remove the old Code Morale from the statutes at the 2004 AGM in Prague. At the time, there was interest among some ind…2 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
Did ATypI ever have teeth? Did it ever succeed in enforcing its code morale on anyone (leaving aside that the code morale was a cartel agreement to permit manufacturers to pirate each others products…3 -
Re: Kerning Figures to Letters
That’s the case of things now, Johannes. In addition to the scripts being processed in different glyph runs, the directional difference means kerning won't work across the bidi boundary. However…5
