Scott-Martin Kosofsky

I had always associated this kind of unnecessary accenting with the byways of U.S. commerce. There was a Chrysler car in the 1970s called the “Volaré,” as if the name needed an acute accent to get th… (View Post)

Joyce, it was partly rhetorical, especially the question about (the nonexistent) court cases. I post something along these lines every time the topic comes up. What I’m railing against is bullying. O… (View Post)

I’d like to turn this question around: Is it ethical for a designer or publisher of a font to demand that a user not alter the font in any way? And what, exactly, constitutes an alteration? The “offe… (View Post)

The issue is the left sidebearing, as Cory Maylett pointed out. Even if Adobe were to adopt a fix for it, it would never cover all of the circumstances you might encounter, any more than even the mos… (View Post)

I would like to make a pitch for the inclusion of the underdot H, in all cases (U+1E24, U+1E25). It is used widely in the transliteration of the Hebrew letter chet, and also in the transliteration of… (View Post)