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Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
@"Igor Freiberger" Relatively few natural language orthographies involve diacritic marks over the ascender height or below the descender depth, and what you propose would make the letters u…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
@"Cristóbal Henestrosa" Your (d) option seems reasonable given the historic sources and your desire to be faithful to them and what they represent about the way roman and italic typefaces w…2 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
You want to start by ensuring that the size of the tallest and deepest glyphs that are used in most common text—e.g. Latin lowercase ascender and descender letters—do not exceed the em height of the …1 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
TypeDrawers messes up Mastodon handles. The URL link for the Typo Social instance is https://typo.social/1 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
1. There isn’t a single, standard approach to spacing monospaced or fixed-width typefaces, because there isn’t a single approach to their design. The important thing to bear in mind is that because t…6
