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Re: Have you ever had conflicts between double-coded glyphs?
With regard to these (and corresponding lowercase), I recommend against double-encoding the commaaccent character U+021A to the cedilla character U+0162. We used to do this, but the feedback from use…1 -
Re: Women in History of Typography
Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie and Helena Lekka have a research project through the University of Reading: Women in Type. See also Fiona and Alice talking about the project at ATypI 2018. And see, of cours…6 -
Re: The Morisawa competition is open.
The purpose of the competition, for Morisawa, is to identify new and unreleased typefaces — both Japanese and Latin — that they might want to publish. As someone else noted, this is similar in intent…5 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It wasn't concocted by Aldus: scribes had been using different styles of letters to differentiate and emphasise content, including using formal upright and cursive slanted styles together. Simil…4 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It's worth considering why that would be the case. I consider consistent texture or 'colour' a byproduct of the actually beneficial design goal. What we're really talking about is…3
