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Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
You're still assuming that people are typing in the text in the case that suits your font. Presume, instead, that the text already exists, and your font is just part of the formatting applied to that…6 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Quite a few of the Emigre types can be classed as conceptual, but I might give special mention to Zuzana Licko's Base 9 and Base 12 families. Not sure if they were the first designs to base proportio…4 -
Re: Microsoft Uniscribe renderer behaviour for kerning and Arabic marks
While I am sympathetic to pointing out the limitations of particular technologies such as OpenType Layout and inconsistencies in the implementation of those technologies, if this just take the form o…2 -
Re: A clarification about kerning.
Round shapes are complicated because unless they are perfectly symmetrical you can't rely on numbers, whether measured from the horizontal extrema or at a standard height. So a letter like O needs to…2 -
Re: Is this a Gill Sans Variant?
Also, this variant of Gill Sans has always been of categorical interest, since it straddles the presumed boundary between ur Humanist and ur Geometric designs.1