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Re: Æthelflæd
Yeah, the /d just looks tipped over, I think because its ascender is too straight. In this case maybe compromising was making the situation worse. I'd try letting the ascender curve more, and making …2 -
Re: Uppercase and Lowercase style differences – other examples?
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…1 -
Re: PSA: A guide on how to draw a proper capital Eszett (ẞ)
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…2 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
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…1 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
Here's an archived page about Glyphs from 2011 that already notes the slanted bounding box.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.2
