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Re: Alphabet 26
My impression is that "the real thing" never existed as a font of any kind: it was more of an alphabet idea that Thompson was proposing, exemplified by some modified Baskerville letters (or…3 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Optical size should be considered fundamental and be a more available axis than weight. All currencies should forgo symbols and just use letter abbreviations. Type designers worry too much about avoi…9 -
Re: Touching serifs or good spacing?
Another option would be contextual alternate forms for the trailing glyph--much less work than ligatures. That's what I'd do here, because that little bit is really irksome.2 -
Re: Legible type design literature/scolars
Matthew Lukiesh at General Electric and, more recently, Kevin Larson at Microsoft might be good leads.2 -
Re: Subs, sups and ordn lookup
I suppose in a sense putting them at the same height accomplishes the differentiation I describe, since the center of gravity is lower for lowercase forms than for full-(superscript-)height figures.3
