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Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Relative proportion in typeface design is complex, because it is both broadly conventional and also particularly idiomatic (and historically also varied somewhat by country, e.g. following Garamond, …7 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
The best way to approach this question is to ask yourself how you want a string of mixed case text to appear when it is set in your font. Too often, people making fonts seem to assume that the proces…4 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
You're still assuming that people are typing in the text in the case that suits your font. Presume, instead, that the text already exists, and your font is just part of the formatting applied to that…6 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Quite a few of the Emigre types can be classed as conceptual, but I might give special mention to Zuzana Licko's Base 9 and Base 12 families. Not sure if they were the first designs to base proportio…4 -
Re: Microsoft Uniscribe renderer behaviour for kerning and Arabic marks
While I am sympathetic to pointing out the limitations of particular technologies such as OpenType Layout and inconsistencies in the implementation of those technologies, if this just take the form o…2
