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Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
It may also be worth noting that the illustration of Maxim's 1963 Helvetica comes from a wonderful book on the work of Moscow lettering artists. Like a number of other examples in the book, this…0 -
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 s…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 ot…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 …0
