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Re: Glyphs extensions for fonts containing basic western set
Underware’s Latin Plus character is an excellent resource for building latin types. It covers 219 languages and the web site allows you to see the special letters required for each supported language…4 -
Re: Inspiration for Times New Roman
Times New Roman was inspired by Plantin. And it doesn't look like that inscription3 -
Re: Notdef: generic or style-specific?
I don’t want the .notdef to match the font at all. It’s not supposed to blend in.2 -
Re: Copying punches?
Early renaissance punchcutters in France made replicas of Italian type from looking at Italian books. And punchcutters all over the world copied broken punches to replace them. So I imagine it was tr…2 -
Re: En/Em dash length for condensed style font
Make the hyphen work first. Then narrow the other dashes so that they harmonize with letters but aren't mistaken for hyphens.2