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Re: Pricing
@JoyceKetterer: Yes, but I think we collectively forget sometimes that the use rights licensing model of software is itself directly taken from the use right licensing model previously employed, for …3 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
Yes, but critically they will not have canonical decompositions: they are encoded only as atomic characters, despite the existence of a number of combining mark overlay characters. They’re difficult …1 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
[On the subject of African language diacritics, I saw this in the London Review of Books yesterday: This is Fred Smeijers’ Quadraat typeface, which the LRB has been using since soon after it was firs…1 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
The core spec can’t change the way combining mark sequences are handled and can’t add any more characters with canonical decompositions. But Unicode’s CLDR project, which compiles locale-specific dat…1 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Rather than auctioning the company, I think it would be more interesting—and way more fun!—if Monotype’s owners were to auction the font IP, family-by-family, in random order. Let’s find out what’s a…6
