John Hudson

  • Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers

    Chris, privilege can be understood, perhaps helpfully, as a systemic confusion around rights. In privilege, some people assume as rights things that are not rights — e.g. more and better better oppor…
  • Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers

    I tend to think of privilege in terms of a matrix in which one can plot various kinds of relative privilege. Although it is unfashionable to say so, I still think that class privilege is the most dom…
  • Re: Grocer's ₹

    My guess, based on typical ductus for writing Devanagari letters — in which the head line stroke is written last —, is that most people will write the R-like part, and then the two horizontal strokes.
  • Re: The Next Font Format?

    That presumes that the spacing in question is something that can be expressed in kerning and class tables. Microsoft's MATH table uses cut-in shape kerning precisely because the spacing involved…
  • Re: The Next Font Format?

    Polygonal spacing remains a tantalising idea. The difficulty is coming up with the right polygons to achieve correct spacing between different glyphs: it's not really solving the problem if one …
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