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Re: Ultramodernity & Hypermodernity in Typeface Design
I can accept the description of squared faces as "ultramodern": They are forward-looking but practical enough for the present, which is to say, they are not out of place in the real world. …3 -
Re: Fonts Ninja (online type index)
I believe (though I have been told I'm wrong) that once a font catches a shopper's attention, what they will most want to see is the complete glyph set, to know exactly what they're getting. Without …4 -
Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
I see, that makes sense. Having a strictly left-to-right script with ascenders, descenders, and diacritics makes our ideas of a font's full vertical dimension much more unclear, which is why digital …1 -
Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
If we are to take terminology from metal type, it should be called the body. Otherwise, I think there isn't a term because the idea is not particularly meaningful. The vertical metrics are not "…3 -
Re: Grawlixes
They typically had spirals in them before the computer age turned them all into at-signs. There is no Unicode for an ordinary spiral, which I find rather strange given everything else that there is. …2
