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Re: Dagger Symbol Design
The superscript alif diacritic sometimes used in Arabic is called a 'dagger alif' (ألف خنجرية alif khanjariyya). Ray's bayonet daggers reminded me that there is also the 'AK47 alif', as featured in …2 -
Re: Dagger Symbol Design
Yes. I did try a curved dagger design, but it simply didn't read as the character. When I made the Nyala Latin design, I wasn't really expecting it to be used, and it was mostly included in the font…4 -
Re: Dagger Symbol Design
I like your rapier-style swept hilt dagger, Christian. I decided to take the dagger appellation literally in Nyala, too, and based the hilt on mediaeval Ethiopian sword design.5 -
Re: Does VTT display the hints in a hinted font?
Note: if you want to check hinting for lower resolutions, it really helps to be looking at VTT on a lower resolution monitor. On a 5K screen, the smaller ppem sizes are too tiny to be properly review…1 -
Re: Printing very wide glyphs in InDesign
I think we should hold a design competition for 16 UPM fonts.8
