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Dutch IJ exceptions
Hoi! I rarely outsource my type design research but I'm hitting a wall and would love to know if I'm the only with this particular problem: When it comes to creating a locl feature for the Dutch lang…2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Maybe this was mentioned before but ẞ always follows a vowel or umlaut. So consonant + ẞ doesn't need to be kerned. The ẞ can be followed by technically any letter (but ẞ, see first sentence).3 -
Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
I researched language-specific typeface design during my masters in Reading. Find the most valuable excerpts of my dissertation here: http://www.alphabettes.org/language-as-design-criteria-part-i/ ht…8 -
Re: What is a newspaper typeface?
Rob McKaughan focused on newspaper typefaces in his dissertation about pattern language in type design. Try to get hold of that or read about it here.2 -
Re: Dalton Maag seeking a Font Developer
Font Developer is a term used by Dalton Maag to group Typeface Designers and Font Engineers. Dave is referring to Software Developers which Dalton Maag also employs but who are (among other things) s…4