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Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
I have confirmed with an Iranian Unicode expert that the special ligature form of the rial character—which I first encountered when Tim Holloway drew it this way for Adobe Arabic—is not Iranian in or…2 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
It varies a bit, depending on the individual sign. The trick is to figure out the essential aspects of each symbol, and then preserve these within individual typeface styles. I would say it is import…4 -
Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
Because text engines treat European languages as if its still the 1990s, so if precomposed diacritic characters are missing they fall back to other fonts or display .notdef, even if the font contains…3 -
Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
That statement assumes that precomposed, atomic diacritic characters are better. They are not. The only reason a bunch of European diacritics ended up encoded that way in Unicode is that the standard…3 -
Re: How to reorder color font as second letter behind the first one while overlapping?
I don’t think that shadow mechanism is quite the same case, Simon. What Tanveer wants is a series of overlapping letter shapes where the preceding letter overlaps the following letter. So imagine it …2
