In the days when italics were new, sloped lowercase letters were often paired with roman caps—in Aldus Manutius's books for example. Delphin jumps to my mind as a modern design that adopts that pairi… (View Post)
Nice work Christian. I particularly found the section on arrangement of contrast helpful, and I am first in line supporting the jettisoning of the "city" nomenclature. For the "serif&q… (View Post)
Do other font editors nowadays use slanted sidebearings like Glyphs has always done, which I find to be an exceedingly convenient graphic representation of the 1/2-x-height convention just alluded to… (View Post)
Here's an archived page about Glyphs from 2011 that already notes the slanted bounding box. That's six years or so before FL VI was shipping. (View Post)