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Re: Kris Sowersby's "Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry"
This seems very much a matter of perspective, and not necessarily of perspectives that are inflexible. It is entirely possible for two intelligent and thoughtful observers to look at the same typefac…12 -
Re: Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?
Nina, The vertical bar | is not primarily a math character. It is used for a variety of editorial purposes, e.g. to indicate verse breaks in transcriptions of poetry, and is generally expected to be …5 -
Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
Essentially, is is about respecting the proportions of the numeral. Whenever you have a triangular shape, you have a strong dependency between height and width, which in the case of the 4 means allow…3 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
I think it is important to bear in mind the context in which Bringhurst's book was initially written, which was that period in the early 1990s when traditional typesetting houses and the accumul…13 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
Native script users, but not necessarily speakers of the languages that use extended Cyrillic characters such as һ. So this could be like asking a native English speaker how to design ß.3
