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Re: Avoiding hyphenation of digraphs through opentype features
@"Igor Freiberger" — I had been thinking a GREP style in InDesign might do the trick. Nice. But I think I might see a typo in your GREP. If I’m not mistaken, the first closing parenthesis a…1 -
Re: Tallone Reserve of Punches (via Antonio Cavedoni)
Not to nitpick, but isn’t this cold metal, Hrant? Hot metal would have been Linotype, Monotype, et al. I’ve met oldtimers with the burn scars on their forearms to prove it. ;-) But yeah, gorgeous stu…2 -
Re: Q: What are the basic and advanced principles of turning body text sans into serif and vice versa?
Or an opportunity for the graphic designer/typographer to exercise their art & skill in matching/sizing. It’s not always up to type designers themselves to solve every typographic challenge. You …3 -
Re: Reason for separating Latin and Cyrillic kerning groups?
From a development standpoint, there is obviously an advantage to having the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek “cognates" in combined classes. As Thomas explains, there are production advantages to hav…6 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
Hmm. As I recall, the old Font Bureau PS Type 1 fonts were generated with empty .notdefs. The unique dingbat glyph (known in-house as the “party” character) was drawn for the apple character slot (un…2
