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Re: Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)
Rightmost ones look like you could string them together to make horizontal braces {}.4 -
Re: Sans Logotype Critique
You could also try the increase of pointiness that Matthew mentioned but only at the bottom vertex. Ns don’t have to be symmetrical—in fact most nice ones aren’t.1 -
Re: Copying punches?
...or (equally or perhaps more likely), the old punches were used for these early decorative styles, with the knowledge that if solid punches were again required they could be remanufactured.1 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
That line effect can be achieved even with dashes with sidebearings, by adding emdash-to-emdash kerning to close the gap.3 -
Re: En/Em dash length for condensed style font
Bringhurst says the hyphen is now standardized to a quarter em, for what that's worth. It seems clear to me that with condensed or expanded designs, such an em-based standard isn't going to work. But…2
