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Re: A reprint edition of Dutch Type is in preparation and you can now preorder it!
It’s good of Jan to do a reprint. This is a valuable work for the armchair historians.2 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I have never met a graphic designer who has even heard of PANOSE (or at least never mentioned it). Nor has anyone ever complained to me about not having PANOSE values in my fonts.6 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
I always use the box-with-an-x-inside design. It sees to be the most common design, so I assume that it is what people expect to see when proofing.3 -
Re: Code points for alternate glyphs
In general, no. Giving PUA code points to alternate glyphs is bad practice because when the alternate is used it changes the text, which means the text has to be re-typed to use it with other fonts.…2 -
Onĕipŏt is not a real language.
For all the type designers out there who are using Latin Plus without looking at the spec: Onĕipŏt is not a real language. According to Underware “It’s just a technical fallback (If I remember correc…6
