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Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
Unfortunately, I did not make a note of it, but I recall reading a text by a German technology historian recently who spoke of leading as being introduced (or maybe made commonplace?) during the nine…1 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
This bothers me. Bernhard Antiqua and Futura were produced by large typefoundries that had been making type for decades. They had skilled punchcutters who could interpret Lucian Bernhard and Paul Re…17 -
Re: Extend language support?
I went to a new Vietnamese restaurant in a run-down Berlin suburb a few weeks ago. When I went up to the counter to pay for dinner, the kitchen worker ran up my bill on the restaurant’s touch-pad cas…4 -
Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
In common typographic parlance, there isn’t. The term revival, if you want to explain it to a layperson in a watertight manner, is really tough. It encompasses quite a lot of things. Nick mentions t…3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
@"Richard Fink" I have seen somewhere (here? elsewhere?) that you are in favor of type designers developing fonts for the web first, and the graphic arts market second. I believe you wrote …3
