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Re: Ornaments and Unicode
The number of purely ornamental characters in Unicode is pretty small; most have some kind of symbolic function. There is, of course, the Ornamental Dingbats block, the original Dingbats block, which…5 -
Re: r rotunda in inscriptions
The rotunda broken r presents an interesting design problem for roman types used to transcribe manuscripts. A peculiar convention of some transcriptions is to set an e.g. bastarda, rotunda, or other …6 -
Re: Latin Extended-B Languages?
The Unicode Latin Extended-B block contains a mix of diacritic characters from different sources: Non-European and historic This section includes a lot of letters used in African languages, as well a…15 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Apart from a change in technologies, there are significant design differences between the Apple version of Zapfino and the later OT version. We built the AAT version, based on outlines provided to us…5 -
Re: URW++ Acquired by Global Graphics (UK) for US$5M
The two companies have had a long relationship, so it's not like being bought by competitors or an anonymous holding company. In some ways, the resulting company bears some similarity to Linotyp…5
