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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 -
Re: "... a variable font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency"
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