John Hudson
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Re: Hyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Claudio: I understand the thinking, but because of the rôle of U+002D in automated hyphenation, I think it is best to think of that character as hyphen in terms of design: it should be identical to U… (View Post)1 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
A true italic was also a characteristic of Frutiger Next, which came between Myriad and Segoe. As I recall, the Linotype case against Segoe was specifically that it infringed Frutiger Next. (View Post)2 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Segoe has been central to the branding of Microsoft in general and Windows in particular for almost 20 years. It is everywhere in Microsoft branding and user experience, and used with great consisten… (View Post)4 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
WordPad began life a stripped down version of Word (hence the name), so while it ships with the OS it takes its cues from Word. Yes, eventually it is likely that some of the new fonts will ship bundl… (View Post)3 -
Re: Pictograms, Unicode, and ISO
You can’t reserve a private use block. The whole point of Private Use Area codepoints is that they’re entirely unstandardised: anyone can use them for anything. (View Post)1