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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: Condensed black display all-caps face (with unicase alternates): Radiator
FWIW, this is a boundary that David Jonathan Ross pushed against with his Fit typeface (not without consultation from plenty of native-speaking colleagues): AÀÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄ1 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
André — True. I’d forgotten that when a designer hadn’t filled all slots, the party character was dumped in.1 -
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
