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Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Very nicely put by E.H. Gombrich in Art and Illusion (1960): ‘The stimulus patterns on the retina are not alone in determining our picture of the visual world. Its messages are modified by what we kn…1 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Let me back up a moment, since I'm the one who introduced the term 'perceptual bias' into the conversation, to clarify what I meant by it. I wrote: In other words, what I am calling perceptual bias i…3 -
Re: Caps taller than ascender
Hang on a minute, Thomas. I don't think Nick was talking about the OS/2 TypoAscender value, but rather about the FL values that correspond to Type 1 record for ascender, cap, x-height, and descender.…1 -
Re: MUFI question
With regard to Times, Alice Savoie and I assisted an early mediaeval scholar a couple of years ago who needed a number of special characters for a book that was being set in Times New Roman. So yes, …2 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Bahman, the normative modulation of Arabic letters that you describe, arising from the movements of the typical writing tool, are what produces the perceptual bias: this is the modulation that we are…4
