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Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
Very Bulgarian. Depends on the style of type and how consistent you are. There's no reason why an upright and formalised version of the cursive letter shape norms can't constitute a valid style (it i…1 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
For traditional text faces, I use a simple rule: x-height + descender = cap height. Ascender height is basically stylistic, i.e. it can vary pretty freely depending on the style of type and the effec…6 -
Re: An HTML Hyperlink Typesetting Question
Although it's an unpopular position, I tend towards the double period. My reasoning is that if the abbreviated word occurred in the middle of a sentence, I would expect it to carry a comma or other c…1 -
Re: This Week in Type: (((BROTHERS)))
At root, gender's just a fancy word for category, so I just assume that categorising typefaces by gender makes about as much or little sense as other classification schemes; i.e. do it if it is usefu…0 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
BTW, note that the 'combining grapheme joiner' is a bit of an oddity, not least because it doesn't join graphemes. There was a period when it looked like it might be deprecated, but then it was found…0
