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Re: Which letters to design first to base others off of it?
For a Latin type design: i n l h m o I H O These establish key proportions and standard features such as terminals, arches, stroke modulation. Then either the distinctive letters — a c e g s — or the…3 -
Re: Why do we need two:
Some thoughts on source management with regard to diacritics: Start including the zero-width combining mark characters as glyphs in your fonts, and use these rather than the spacing accents in compos…1 -
Re: Early superior letters
Oh this is much, much later than the Babylonian captivity: 6–7th Century CE. It's Babylonian as distinct from Palestinian (Tiberian), i.e. eastern Masoretes rather than western.1 -
Re: Which letters to design first to base others off of it?
I know a lot of people favour H O n o, and some texts on type design recommend these, but you can't actually create many words or word-like sequence from these letters. That's why I suggest…10 -
Re: Greek κεραία numeral sign(s)
There seems to remain a convention in Greek legislative texts, akin to use of roman numerals in English texts, that continues to use letters-as-numbers, including the 'numeric koppa' letter…1
