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Re: Design of the Cyrillic letter Qa /Ԛ /ԛ
What you show on the right there is not Brill Latin. The Brill Latin fonts do not include Cyrillic characters, which is why you are seeing font fallback. The latest version of Brill, available on the…1 -
Re: Searching for a vector-based emoji font
You can contact Michael via his website: https://www.evertype.com/misc/bio.html Joshua, a problem you may encounter is that a lot of software is now emojified, i.e. it will display emoji characters u…1 -
Re: Searching for a vector-based emoji font
You may be able to force b/w emoji display using Variation Selector 15 (U+FE0E) after the emoji character, as explained here: https://www.codejam.info/2021/11/emoji-variation-selector.html That is be…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Italic, functionally, refers to a class of letter that is used in a particular, conventional and articulatory way in most Latin script typography. I'd say this use, based on textual function rather t…2 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Italics derive, ultimately, from the Italian secretarial hand of the 15th Century, which is to say that they derive from the cursive, informal scribal hand, while romans derive from the formal bookha…5