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Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
Not necessarily encompass: it's arguably a different usage and hence a different definition. The usage of 'revival' re. the Chiswick Press use of Caslon types isn't in any way spe…2 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
The term revival applied to the mid-19th Century use of Caslon really means a revival of use of Caslon, which had fallen out of fashion for some decades. The foundry provided electrotyped matrices to…2 -
Re: Best practice & techniques for converting scans to vectors
I don't go from scans to vectors very often, but when I do I use ScanFont. I'm never looking for a clean outline from this process: just an accurate capture of the weight and proportions of…3 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
A distinction should be made between legacy spacing accents such as U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT and the spacing modifier signs in the 02XX block. The latter are used in phonetics.2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
I do this in all my Greek fonts. Note that it is also the convention for polytonic accents in modern use. Everything gets suppressed in all-caps settings except the dialytika (dieresis). Note that th…7
