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Re: Short Monotype Descenders
For most of printing history types didn’t have common baselines. So mixing roman and italic from different vendors, or even dropping in a miscellaneous symbol, might require creative filing and leadi…7 -
Re: Extend language support?
Doing Greek and Cyrillic pays off for some designers because it helps their work sell to ad agencies doing pan-European campaigns. It’s probably not going to help a font that isn’t already selling we…1 -
Re: first use of arrows to indicate directions...
Columbarium is the most interesting word I’ve learned all month!2 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
Rules for using long s were not consistent, so it generally should not be substituted with an OpenType feature. The text should use the long s unicode character rather than relying on designers or so…2 -
Re: alt.comp.fonts FAQ lives!
Now convince Jared to put Typophile on Github.6
