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Re: A question about the Greek Tonos
The standard practice of placing marks to the left of caps in Greek dates from 19th Century typography. Prior to that one often saw the marks above (and I have a 1593 example in which they're to…1 -
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 -
Re: Superior and ordinal numbers
Yes, this can occur in apparatus critici of scholarly editions. This example is from the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. I always design all my superscript (and subscript) on the assumption that they…1 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
I don't think this makes any more sense as a general or universal rule than Hrant's insistence that giving away a branding typeface necessarily undermines its branding power. There are diff…7 -
Re: Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
Gill's 'overbold' illustration seems to me deliberately freakish, employing forms and techniques that don't follow from the models of extreme heavy types that were developed in th…2
