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Re: Italic for ALL glyphs?
The only use I personally have for the bar is for punctuation in old-timey song lyrics and for things like this: ...in which case the vertical bars look weird to me. What are the uses that call for v…1 -
Re: Please list your favorite foreign looking Latin fonts
I made a faux Arabic font back in my absolutely ignorant (pre-Typophile) early days of font design. Don't google it, I'm mortified by its existence. I also obviously didn't know the first thing about…1 -
Re: Figtree - Cyrillic contributions
Here's my Ysabeau for comparison (after extensive reviews with Alexei Vanyashin): Apparently it's preferable for /che-cy/ to have a rather horizontal joint rather than an /u/-like bowl.3 -
Re: Figtree - Cyrillic contributions
The /ef-cy/'s body should be as tall as /o/, and its descender at deep as /p/. I'm not sure whether there's some leeway in making the ascender shorter than /d/ since ascenders are so rare in Cyrillic…1 -
Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
A few years ago, I was first hit by the creative urge to make a faithful sans companion to Garamond — not just another humanist sans tipping its hat to the old master, but a sans that really was Gara…3
