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Re: Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, Ђ, Џ
You are absolutely right that it takes an experienced typographer to provide advice on many aspects of a typeface.But it is also true that there are cultural aspects to what is usual for typography …1 -
Re: Transforming Typeface Design: Moving Beyond Gutenberg and Roman Traditions
I don't know about you, but when I read a technical text, I want to be able to look back, and perhaps reread what I saw in a previous paragraph. That is much easier to do with the printed page than …1 -
Re: Transforming Typeface Design: Moving Beyond Gutenberg and Roman Traditions
It may well be true that designing typefaces with a mindset keyed to Roman characters and mediaeval penmanship limits their applicability to new media in the digital age. But I was amused when I read…2 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
Text editors that only use fixed-width typefaces, because they're intended for editing computer programs, rarely offer their users the option of turning advanced OpenType features on and off. So usin…3 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
I haven't been able to locate the descending italic capital J on any version of Times. However, you may be thinking of the swash italic lowercase Z, absent from Times 327 from Monotype, but found bo…1
