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Re: Encoding the unencoded
[On the subject of African language diacritics, I saw this in the London Review of Books yesterday: This is Fred Smeijers’ Quadraat typeface, which the LRB has been using since soon after it was firs…1 -
Re: Encoding the unencoded
The core spec can’t change the way combining mark sequences are handled and can’t add any more characters with canonical decompositions. But Unicode’s CLDR project, which compiles locale-specific dat…1 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Rather than auctioning the company, I think it would be more interesting—and way more fun!—if Monotype’s owners were to auction the font IP, family-by-family, in random order. Let’s find out what’s a…6 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
From conversations at ATypI and TypeCon, I think a lot of us presumed this was coming, and that the push to acquire of other foundries’ font IP was to get as many notional assets onto the books befor…8 -
Re: Draw in light mode or dark mode?
When working on a bookface, I like using a creamy, off-white background, both to cut down glare and to approximate book papers.7
