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Re: What are 'true italics'?
If people didn't want Italics to send a different message from Roman, they would just use Roman. The flavor of the Italics is part of the flavor of a serif typeface. A bad Italic is a good reaso…7 -
Re: Vladivostok v 1.005 / extended Latin & Cyrillic, free, semi condensed sans-serif
Hrant, at some point you have to let the Russians decide what looks properly Russian.2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
No, going from ß to ẞ is an undeniable improvement in proportions and rhythm for all-caps setting for basically no loss of readability. Adding a hard top left is at best an irrelevant, purely academi…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I doubt ẞ will become ubiquitous enough to be actively learned as a new part of the alphabet. Ideally, its meaning should be instantly clear even to uninitiated readers, as was presumably the case fo…0 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Here's my point put into pictures:2
