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Re: Does any language use the straight quote as an orthographic letter?
Not the straight quote character per se, but a closely related form: A78B Ꞌ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO A78C ꞌ LATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLO Used for a glottal stop consonant in some indigenous Mexic…1 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
A lot of Greek publishing in the 20th Century used what were originally two distinct typefaces in combination: an upright, derived from Didot's 18th Century Greek types, so common as to be referred t…3 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
It may be helpful to identify the legal concern that some parties, notably Adobe, had regarding the old Code Morale and antitrust legislation. It isn't the existence of an ethical behaviour policy pe…7 -
Re: Do you sort your glyphs?
I tend to group glyphs by type: • Basic alphabetic uppercase (e.g. A–Z for Latin) • Uppercase diacritics, sorted according to basic alphabetic, followed by specials such as Eth and Thorn • Basic alph…6 -
Re: Do you sort your glyphs?
I always manage the ordering of glyphs, usually in some way that I hope will be intuitive to users but mostly helpful to myself and collaborators during development. Every font project I work on begi…5
