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Re: Looking for Richmond Old Style Bold Compressed
Rowan Oak NF by Nick Curtis (Nick's Fonts) is a digital version (2007) but only in bold and not condensed.1 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
In metal fonts it's called something like undercut or overlap. And they also used rhombic bodies for italic with wedges at begin and end of line, or change to upright font.1 -
Re: A sophisticated webfont solution for the humanities?
Supporting scientific transliteration of medieval (and older) handwriting means level 3, i.e. use of PUA and requests for new glyphs during transliteration. Even in printed books 1700-1900 (I focus o…1 -
Re: Stunning advance in Machine Learning applied to typeface design
@Sérgio Martins It's more a scientific April fool hoax. Maybe you mean some serious attempts like this: Hideaki Hayashi; Kohtaro Abe; Seiichi Uchida; GlyphGAN: Style-Consistent Font Generation Based …2 -
Re: A Mythical DIN
The basic idea of DIN or other types of Norm-Schrift is equal stroke width and simple geometry to allow handwriting or plotting with a round pen. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettering_guid…1
