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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 -
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 th…0 -
Re: Reactions: How insightful is Insightful?
I think you should keep the 'Insightful' flag. I think it's actually the only one that is particularly useful, indicating not simply that someone likes or agrees with a post, but that …3
