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Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
That statement assumes that precomposed, atomic diacritic characters are better. They are not. The only reason a bunch of European diacritics ended up encoded that way in Unicode is that the standard…3 -
Re: How to reorder color font as second letter behind the first one while overlapping?
I don’t think that shadow mechanism is quite the same case, Simon. What Tanveer wants is a series of overlapping letter shapes where the preceding letter overlaps the following letter. So imagine it …2 -
Re: Fun, detailed essay on old machine-routing font
Fry’s Baskerville. Leroy’s Gorton.5 -
Re: Digital Greek Typography is Broken
The Unicode encoding of Greek is messy and certainly not as simple or easy to implement as it should have been. As Kent notes, it includes some equivalences between Greek letters and Greek-derived sy…4 -
Re: Professional Indemnity insurance
I dimly recall a draft contract from a client requiring us to obtain such insurance, and I struck out the clause. After a bit of back and forth with their lawyers, they agreed that fonts were low ris…3