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Re: Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
Something like 99% of inscribed Latin lettering chiseled in stone is done with a v-cut, because it is both efficient and visually attractive, but it isn’t the only method. One sometimes encounters, f…2 -
Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
Probably worth mentioning that disabling of these feature beyond a certain range of tracking is app-specific—notably in InDesign—and not part of a general OpenType Layout specification.2 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
Map the single lowercase ß to two smallcap S glyphs. There is no reason why the smallcap should be represented by a single SS glyph in all-caps or smallcaps. The standard German spelling rule—if the …3 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
I can certainly see that attraction. As someone who spends a lot of time updating and extending older fonts, I value all the more any time I get to spend on new things. Handing over older projects to…8 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Too literarally, I think. As far as I know, U+0315 was encoded specifically for compatibility with older encodings that used a postscript mark, following typewriter practice, to write the Slovak Ľ ď …1
