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Re: Affinity 2.0
Adobe has avoided OS-reliance for font handling and text rendering for a long time. It is part of their policy of maintaining cross-platform feature compatibility in their software: they don’t want t…6 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
While named instances have the effect of mimicking static fonts in the way in which they are presented in font menus, I think of them more as navigation signposts or like pins on a map that indicate …3 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Note that the STIX Two fonts support IPA, so there is a functional reason for the /fhook is straight up and coordinated with the other letters. These days, I lean towards that as a default approach a…2 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Unicode provides the encoding distinction between regular f and hooked ƒ, but with two big caveats: a) as discussed in this thread, the hooked ƒ is uniied with the florin sign, which may have stylist…1 -
Re: When did non-traditional cedillas appear?
One sees similar things in Turkey. I even saw one sign in Istanbul in which the cedilla was represented by a dot below the C. But this variety is very particular to local signage in a particular lang…1
