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Re: Non-Latin digital incunabula?
Do you have a copy of Fiona's book on Bengali type? It covers the pre-PostScript digital technology pretty well, and of course her team at Linotype worked on a lot of different South Asian, Sout…5 -
Re: Reviving Type
Yes, but since the distance travelled from the original is greater it is also more varied, and that in itself seems to me interesting. I know in my own work there are aspects of derivation from histo…2 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
You're still having this conversation? Going back to the original post, is there perhaps a fundamental misunderstanding or mischaracterisation of the entire IBM Plex project? Looking through the…7 -
Re: Latinized Greek
The high point — if it can be called that — of Latinised type design for Greek script as a cultural phenomenon in Greece was almost half a century ago. We can probably stop talking about it now and j…4 -
Re: Sort multiple-mapping sequentially in FontLab
My recommendation would be to sort by a custom .enc file glyph list, rather than trying to sort by Unicode. That's always the tidiest option for control the GID order.5
