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Re: Contract/agreement for custom font work
Yes. That's how I ended up hiring a Dutch lawyer to review a contract. Who is drafting the contract is one of the things I take into account when deciding who gets to specify the jurisdiction (along …1 -
Re: Type Engineering: How to get into it?
Firstly, this work requires attention to and good memory for detail. That’s true of type design too, but on the engineering side it is crucial. Being able to work systematically is also important. If…8 -
Re: Looking for help with Hebrew vowels and cantillation marks
Biblical Hebrew mark and mkmk positioning can involve contextual GPOS lookups that move marks onto alternative anchors depending on a variety of factors: presence of other marks, position in a word, …3 -
Re: Design of the Cyrillic letter Qa /Ԛ /ԛ
I don’t recall seeing it taking any form other than that of the corresponding Latin Q/q. It and the Wa W/w are both straight borrowings from the Latin script. Any idiosyncratic forms were likely type…2 -
Re: How would you redo Unicode?
It was an entirely political compromise to satisfy the South Korean national standard body at at time when Unicode was not guaranteed to be an accepted standard in East Asia. I don’t think anyone con…1
