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Re: Caslon's Pica Gothic
It's based on the type cut for Junius' first printed edition of the Gothic Bible (Dordrecht, 1665). See ‘Incunabula’s recent Twitter thread on the subject.1 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
A huge amount of work is being done on voice input, with great progress made in natural language processing. But input of special, non-linguistic characters, it seems to me, is always going to be pro…1 -
Re: Caslon's Pica Gothic
Yes, see the link provided by George. The Codex Argenteus manuscript of Wulfilas' translation of the Bible into Gothic is glorious: written in silver and gold ink on vellum dyed an imperial purp…3 -
Re: Dreaming of a new feature syntax
Ah. Yes, I agree the data shouldn't be duplicated, but it should be possible to fork it anywhere in the design space. What we have in recent font tools is pretty close to this: unified GSUB and …1 -
Re: Why is this hard to read?
Clugusta! The A really needs to be closed at the top, and would also benefit from being slightly taller and slightly further away from the U.6
