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Re: Is this a Gill Sans Variant?
Also, this variant of Gill Sans has always been of categorical interest, since it straddles the presumed boundary between ur Humanist and ur Geometric designs.1 -
Re: Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W
Which is why I think having the middle stroke ascend should not be considered essential, but instead a stylistic option. And linking the hairline of the left side into the top of the bowl on the righ…0 -
Re: Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W
As I suspected would happen eventually, Brill have asked me to add these characters to their typefaces. Still no easier to conceive in common roman and italic type styles than it was two and a half y…0 -
Re: Regular and italic with the same character widths
I tend to favour wide italics — unless specifically working in the style of renaissance types —, but would avoid committing to matching specific widths of roman letters unless doing a strict sloped r…3 -
Re: Variants: in 'salt' or in 'ss...'?
It's a legitimate approach for stylistic set features to have different substitutions for different scripts.0
