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Re: My text face wish list
Brill use U+27E8 and U+27E9 for the angle brackets. Dingbat codepoints are best avoided, since they may be emojified in some environments, i.e swapped out for the default emoji font on a system. U+23…3 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
To be clear: the two Segoe handwriting types were not intended to be disconnected and connected versions of the same design. Indeed, what they indicate about the differences between writing connected…1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
Microsoft have this for European writing systems in the Segoe Print and Segoe Script types, which benefited greatly from native expert input on Cyrillic and Greek handwriting.4 -
Re: IPA ligature requirements
All the double-letter combining marks in Unicode are difficult to implement well. You need to plan for base letters of differing widths as well as differing heights, so need multiple contextual varia…3 -
Re: Which typeface is better: Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk?
Which Helvetica? The Linotype/Adobe digital version inherited unitised widths, which meant that its sidebearings were wildly inconsistent. It also used the PS Type 1 slant function to produce the ‘It…5
