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Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
I'm pretty sure InDesign is deciding which icon to display only on the basis of which outline type is used, not whether the font contains OpenType Layout features. There are fonts identified as TrueT…2 -
Re: Have you ever had conflicts between double-coded glyphs?
With regard to these (and corresponding lowercase), I recommend against double-encoding the commaaccent character U+021A to the cedilla character U+0162. We used to do this, but the feedback from use…1 -
Re: Women in History of Typography
Fiona Ross, Alice Savoie and Helena Lekka have a research project through the University of Reading: Women in Type. See also Fiona and Alice talking about the project at ATypI 2018. And see, of cours…6 -
Re: The Morisawa competition is open.
The purpose of the competition, for Morisawa, is to identify new and unreleased typefaces — both Japanese and Latin — that they might want to publish. As someone else noted, this is similar in intent…5 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
It wasn't concocted by Aldus: scribes had been using different styles of letters to differentiate and emphasise content, including using formal upright and cursive slanted styles together. Similar th…4
