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Re: Latinized Greek
I understand the argument, but by the same logic are modern Greeks Greeks?3 -
Re: Sculptural Beauty: an invitation to participate
While I've often pondered the best way to document digital font development — and make a point of saving copies of my font sources at significant moments along the way —, I think you might be overest…2 -
Re: w_r ligature in script font
I think you've got a ductus problem, in that you are merging the final stroke of the w and the initial stroke of the r into a single element, so the result is readable as ur or wı.2 -
Re: Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?
Not the straight quote character per se, but a closely related form: A78B Ꞌ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO A78C ꞌ LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLO Used for a glottal stop consonant in some indigenous Mexic…1 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
A lot of Greek publishing in the 20th Century used what were originally two distinct typefaces in combination: an upright, derived from Didot's 18th Century Greek types, so common as to be referred t…3