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Re: Playing around with Venetians
Isn't a 1 in oldstyle numerals that looks like a 1 instead of like an I a rather recent innovation?1 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
Is it? It's not as if we can actually do an experiment, setting up two parallel timelines with and without free fonts. But apparently there is some evidence: He goes on to say, though, that the…2 -
Re: Dutch IJ with dots
I think that Hrant acknowledges that a single acute might not look appropriate to native speakers of Dutch at this time. The way I understand his viewpoint is this: that it would be worthwhile for th…1 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
Don't worry, I think co-opting IBM's font identity is the last thing any "budding rival of IBM" that wanted to establish any sort of credibility would want to do. I will definite…2 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
It's true that we don't call Sweden Sveriges in English, despite seeing that is its real name from their postage stamps. But it is a common practice in English to take foreign words and re…1
