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Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?
There are two kinds of trademarks: claimed trademarks that are established by use, and registered trademarks. If a name is used, a trademark may be claimed on it without that trademark being register…2 -
Re: Support for polytonic Greek
Historically, there are two conventions for writing the iota sign with an uppercase letter: with a subscript iota (ypogegrammeni) and with a postscript iota (prosgegrammeni). In modern Greek publishi…2 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
NotePad is a plain text editor; Wordpad is a rich text editor. TextEdit is both: you can toggle plain and rich text modes.1 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
I’ve yet to see any empirical evidence of either typical Latin ligatures or variant letter shapes having a significant impact on reading speed and comprehension. I can imagine some forms in some type…3 -
Re: Math symbols placement
I love ‘Scotch’ numerals. They’re especially useful in fonts supporting both European and Indian scripts, because they can align adequately with both.2
