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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 -
Re: Limited character set text generator
Matthew Butterick put this simple tool together a long time ago. Words, not text. Miguel Sousa constructed this one. If you click on Options, you can change scripts even.3 -
Re: Beginner question about unicode
You might also find this conversation interesting: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1388/what-character-set-do-you-usually-reach-for-as-a-default-when-you-start-a-new-font/p11
