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Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
Jacob, I think the Greek type in the 1784 example is what Enschedé records as Long Primer Greek No.590 — or something very similar (the mu seems slightly different). Enschedé got the type from the Eg…1 -
Re: Open Fontdata Storage
I'm concerned that you talk in terms of glyphs being involved in features. I know that .fea syntax tends to encourage this view because of the efficiencies it uses at the code level, but it'…3 -
Re: Open Fontdata Storage
With regard to storing layout data, yes, let's do something: I find the whole 'shove a .fea file into the storage format' to be not much better than 'shove a hex representation of…1 -
Re: Definition of penmanship
I'd define penmanship as something like 'the skill of writing well, achieved by practice'. I avoid using the term 'formal' because that word also has a specific usage that di…2 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
I'm pretty sure internationalisation is too. Plex is being extended to lots of different writing systems and increased character coverage, so provides a company like iA Writer with a way to prov…2
