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Re: Matthew Carter's definition of 'revival'
The term revival applied to the mid-19th Century use of Caslon really means a revival of use of Caslon, which had fallen out of fashion for some decades. The foundry provided electrotyped matrices to…2 -
Re: Best practice & techniques for converting scans to vectors
I don't go from scans to vectors very often, but when I do I use ScanFont. I'm never looking for a clean outline from this process: just an accurate capture of the weight and proportions of a drawing…3 -
Re: The Mysteries of the Unicode Table
A distinction should be made between legacy spacing accents such as U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT and the spacing modifier signs in the 02XX block. The latter are used in phonetics.2 -
Re: Should all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
I do this in all my Greek fonts. Note that it is also the convention for polytonic accents in modern use. Everything gets suppressed in all-caps settings except the dialytika (dieresis). Note that th…7 -
Re: Seb Lester's doodles, calligraphy or lettering?
The terminology varies by practice and profession. For instance, the people who write the text in comic books are credited with lettering them. Craig's suggestion that 'lettering' be taken as a catch…6
