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Re: About German Eszett
Replace ß <-> SS is application level and old casefolding, i. e. before Unicode assigned 'ẞ' U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S (Uppercase_Letter) as a character, the small ß was casefolded to…2 -
Re: What is sharp S
From history they had. Gutenberg himself cut a simpler typeface than Bible-Textura for non-relgious texts, a sort of Bastarda. The French first used Textura and very fast designed their Batard. Engl…1 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
Most fonts for text have proportions somewhere around this (assuming 1000 units): - x-height 500 - ascender length (h-height - x-height) 250 - descender length 250 - H-size (CAP-size) 700, if H is sm…2 -
Re: My text face wish list
At least scientific books should use U+27E8 and U+27E9, as e.g. LaTeX uses them: "Enclosing punctuation" (as I call it) used in the right way has the benefit, that Unicode properties 'open…2 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
In practice it's not always easy to extract embedded fonts. Tried it with the character tables of Unicode for the purposes of machine learning. They reduce the fonts to the minimum needed. Some embed…1
