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Re: Dutch IJ with dots
As I noted, back in the 1970s, ij would have appeared on the keyboards of computer terminals in the Netherlands, because it was part of the Dutch national versions of 7-bit ASCII under ISO 646, even…2 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
I think you would have to wait until 2025, the target date is noted in the Wikipedia article; the conversion to the Latin alphabet will be a gradual one, people there are not expected to learn to re…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
While I've noted myself that the usual practice with italic versions of sans-serif typefaces is for them to be slanted versions of the normal version, some of the comments here on this issue hav…1 -
Re: Playboy
Certainly looks like Goudy Old Style to me at first glance. But I thought most advertising was typeset by the ad agency, and was sent to publications in image form, since one might see exactly the sa…1 -
Re: Does that “y” exist?
Clearly I'm no professional type designer. The only thing I could see (apparently) wrong with the typeface sample that began this thread was that the capital Y should have had a shallower V-part…2
