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Re: Letter-fitting and spacing research
I tried, and got about halfway through the second page before I gave up. I flagged what I thought were a few missing cap-to-lowercase kerning pairs in the first page, but as I went on I found myself …3 -
Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Andreas: I believe it originated in typewriters, where a single key was used for hyphen and for minus—which didn’t really matter, since most typewriter text was monospaced—, and whence to computer ke…3 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
A true italic was also a characteristic of Frutiger Next, which came between Myriad and Segoe. As I recall, the Linotype case against Segoe was specifically that it infringed Frutiger Next.2 -
Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
One of my favourite OpenType memories from the early days was visiting Adobe with a group of other type designers and Ross demo’ing the beta OTL support in the upcoming version of FontLab. At the tim…1 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Segoe has been central to the branding of Microsoft in general and Windows in particular for almost 20 years. It is everywhere in Microsoft branding and user experience, and used with great consisten…4
