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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 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
I would distinguish two forms of similar appearance, only one of which I would call 'two stroke'. A lot of the forms that Gerry shows, are based on the first ductus, which is continuous (cursive): Bo…4 -
Re: Latinized Greek
The high point — if it can be called that — of Latinised type design for Greek script as a cultural phenomenon in Greece was almost half a century ago. We can probably stop talking about it now and j…4
