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Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
Gerry Leonidas encouraged the ClearType Collection designers to make the rounded beta and the cursive theta the default forms for the italic styles in those families. This works fairly well (presumin…4 -
Re: Georgian Italic
I'd like to see the concept of italic unpicked, and reimplemented based on a conceptual rather than a stylistic understanding (which might in turn result in calling it something other than itali…6 -
Re: Discretionary Ligatures: more than only one lookup
Note that linebreaking behaviour is character-based, not glyph based, so simply making a combination of letters form a ligature when they are adjacent won't mean that they won't end up gett…1 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
I think pretty much anyone making a font that supports Turkish knows they need to give special handling to the i and dotless i, not only with regard to ligatures but also in smallcap substitutions. T…2 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
I’ve yet to see any empirical evidence of either typical Latin ligatures or variant letter shapes having a significant impact on reading speed and comprehension. I can imagine some forms in some type…3
