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Re: Help me pick the /n/
With the first example, you're getting into Greek territory with horizontal stroke entry. The look like a bit like eta & mu. Maybe look at some Greek typefaces for ideas. Like the way the right s…2 -
Re: Display type based on odd signage
Consider the contradiction that I've been often guilty of: quirky, rustic glyphs with laser precise horizontal precision. A slight vertical misalignment can inform the reader that this is supposed to…2 -
Re: Generating font weights in fontlab, Italic v Oblique
I think the oblique got a bad rap in the late 1990s and early 2000s because they were conflated with the easy skewing generated by the word processors and 10-second Fontographer slant jobs like the o…4 -
Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
The technique of determining ascenders & descenders has been discussed recently in font critiques. I think it deserves it's own discussion. @"Hrant H. Papazian" mentioned his technique …9 -
Re: Cyrillics I really need to bother with
Since many of us here will spend the rest of our lives filling in these Unicode ranges over and over again, it pays to spend more time working out what to include, what not to include. If you're work…2
