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Re: How does Unicode work?
After a proposal is submitted, it first goes to the Script Encoding Working Group, which reviews the proposal. The SEW is made up of Unicode staff and invited experts, and they will often ask questio…3 -
Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
There is, but it isn’t very well defined in the business, in part because of the absence of any specific educational opportunities for font engineering. If someone had gone through one of the various…1 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
It would be a fallacy if I wasn’t clear that this is a moral preference, and not an imperative. It is my preference. I just happen to think it is a good one, even if it sometimes gets complicated or …2 -
Re: What's this old metal arabic typeface?
Good find. I have that Amsterdam/Tetterode specimen book, and can confirm that this typeface is indeed the Maleisch No.2. It is slightly more heavily inked in the specimen book, but the shapes are un…1 -
Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
I would say the division, insofar as one can be said to exist, is at the level of the specific font format, i.e. the particular technology for which a typeface design is being engineered. That is the…4
