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Re: What is the exercise called by former students of type@cooper? or type@media I think?
Possibly TypeCooker?1 -
Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
Indeed, and you are right that some of the obliqued-roman italics are insufficiently distinguished, i.e. slant in itself is not adequate. Of the three conventional properties of italics—slant, distin…5 -
Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
Is it begging the question to say it is due to nib angle? There are reasons why scribes hold and manipulate pens in different ways for different script styles. In the case of italic hand, it seems to…1 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
I put contextual pseudo-ligating glyph substitutions in the liga feature, and have not experienced any issues yet. Users expect to be able to disable/enable things that look like ligatures via the li…3 -
Re: What non-English ligatures are there?
@"Peter Constable" cf. Brill, and other fonts that use contextual variant shapes of letters that dynamically ligate, rather than ligature glyphs. See pages 23–25 of this PDF: http://tiro.co…2
