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Re: FontRadar
I wonder what it would cost foundries to collectively develop a tool like the one FontRadar uses or, alternatively, to buy it off FontRadar (who could continue to offer a license enforcement service …1 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
I have only ever seen the estimated symbol used with preceding or following quantities and units, never with letters and numbers within the shape as shown here. I don’t recall seeing documentation wi…1 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
I have confirmed with an Iranian Unicode expert that the special ligature form of the rial character—which I first encountered when Tim Holloway drew it this way for Adobe Arabic—is not Iranian in or…2 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
It varies a bit, depending on the individual sign. The trick is to figure out the essential aspects of each symbol, and then preserve these within individual typeface styles. I would say it is import…4 -
Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
Because text engines treat European languages as if its still the 1990s, so if precomposed diacritic characters are missing they fall back to other fonts or display .notdef, even if the font contains…3
