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Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Talk of the WRIT project research reminded me of this presentation, which I gave during the pre-conference tech sessions at TypeCon 2008. No commentary, just the slides: African Alphabets (2008)3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Now you're really making me embarrassed about the times I get it wrong. I feel I should preface every statement with 'The current state of my knowledge is...' I treat information from @"Denis Mo…5 -
Re: Transliteration Character Table
Katy, the Wikipedia entry on romanization contains some useful links, and the entries for transliteration of specific scripts can also be quite good, e.g. Devanagari. I suspect Pim at Brill might hav…2 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
Using PUA encodings intelligently involves a degree of knowledge on the part of the user that I wouldn't presume for general retail fonts. We use PUA only exceptionally, when our clients are very awa…3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Not quite. The codepage bitfield is for registering what legacy 8-bit codepages the font supports, which is then used by some software — notably RichEdit clients on Windows —to make guesses about fon…4
