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Re: Why does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the baseline?
Essentially, is is about respecting the proportions of the numeral. Whenever you have a triangular shape, you have a strong dependency between height and width, which in the case of the 4 means allow…3 -
Re: Recommended Type Design and Typography Books
I think it is important to bear in mind the context in which Bringhurst's book was initially written, which was that period in the early 1990s when traditional typesetting houses and the accumulated …13 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
Native script users, but not necessarily speakers of the languages that use extended Cyrillic characters such as һ. So this could be like asking a native English speaker how to design ß.3 -
Re: Bifurcated serif, clean up and condensed version
In the mid-90s, Ed Benguiat and Tony Stan did a series of 'handtooled' (inline) versions of ITC faces.1 -
Re: Type Network
PS. Given the timing of the TN roll-out, I'm presuming that more information is likely to be forthcoming at the upcoming Typographics conference.1
