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Re: Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
In Greek and Cyrillic, I had already set the ascenders to 675 rather than the 700 in the Latin... That would be right between the top (700) and middle (650) versions in the image above. These are now…2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
It's a contrived non-solution to a contrived non-problem. A ſs ligature only makes sense in a world where the ſ/s distinction is still present. It's been abolished for good reasons. There i…3 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I don't see the merit of introducing a ligature for /s_s — after all, the sequence behaves exactly as expected. A vowel followed by a consonant cluster is short by default. Otherwise, you might …1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
John, good argument with Ue and Ü. Ue was a crutch and is no longer needed now that Ü is available; same with SS and SZ. I disagree with your design proposals, though. Since ß is a monolithic glyph r…1 -
Re: Caster (serif, for text, multiscript)
I really like the organic lines, chunky texture and down-to-earth stability of this. Reminds me of Mrs Eaves. Would be a pity to hide it in tiny captions! :grimace: «Caster» as in spellcaster? It doe…2
