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Re: What is the current day difference between a typeface and a font?
I would say that San Vito's italian humanist miniscule is just that: his personal interpretation of that style. It is a typeface, and I have a copy of an implementation of it as an .otf, an OpenType …1 -
Re: What is the current day difference between a typeface and a font?
Why is typeface silly but font fine? They are both terms from the technology of creating text using prefabricated characters. There is no record of either term applied to lettering prior to the devel…5 -
Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
@"John Savard" Please remember that a significant portion of IPA letters are also used in natural language orthographies. In the case of North American first nations languages, this involve…6 -
Re: Swapping Alternate and Default Form
You could also use TTX to dump the cmap table and remap the character codes to the glyphs you prefer.1 -
Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
It's acceptable, but I find a rotated c often tends to be less stable on the baseline, and will tend to have a slight optical tilt to the left, so needs some adjustment to make an overall fuller, rou…3
