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Re: Avoid "stroke"
@"Beau Williamson" I agree with almost everything you wrote there. The idea that concepts of stroke and notan are in opposition ignores all the ways in which designers deal with both on a d…3 -
Re: Optical compensations and writing tools
Are we going to repeat every single Typophile discussion on TypeDrawers? Formal writers regularly rotate the pen or brush to write Z with a thicker downstroke: that is part of the ductus of this lett…6 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
I thought we established years ago, on Typophile, that even the most calligraphically inspired typeface design is at most parachirographic in nature, because of a) the distinctive aspects of the medi…10 -
Re: Old-style (minuscule) zero in Black weight serif
The opposite is also viable, and I think creates a stronger impression in sequences such as I originally designed the Brill text 0 with the heavy side on the left, but was unhappy with how feeble it …2 -
Re: OpenType feature to transform (c) to ©
(c) is not equivalent to © The copyright symbol © is legally significant in some jurisdictions and circumstances (e.g. in the US for works published before 1 March 1989), and representing it in text …9
