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Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
A distinction should be made between legacy spacing accents such as U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT and the spacing modifier signs in the 02XX block. The latter are used in phonetics.2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
I do this in all my Greek fonts. Note that it is also the convention for polytonic accents in modern use. Everything gets suppressed in all-caps settings except the dialytika (dieresis). Note that th…7 -
Re: Seb Lester's doodles, calligraphy or lettering?
The terminology varies by practice and profession. For instance, the people who write the text in comic books are credited with lettering them. Craig's suggestion that 'lettering' be t…6 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
I presume Glyphs is reporting the number of glyphs it considers to be necessary for Gujurati support (based on its internal automation data, which might or might not be equivalent to what a designer …1 -
Re: Determining ex, em and en
BTW, my general recommendation would be to match CSS use of these units.1
