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Re: The Silcrow is currently my nemesis
I usually align the height optically with the bottom of the tail of the Q (and the J if it is descending), which is usually a bit less deep than the lowercase descenders. And the section sign and par…4 -
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
