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Re: Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?
Here’s a real-world example of such a non-technical setting. (Okay, so it’s not an all-italic sidebar, but same basic idea, I think.) From TIME magazine, Nov. 2, 2015: Call me old-fashioned, but I ju…5 -
Re: Webpage to check language coverage of a given character set?
Hmm. Seems more exclusionary in other ways. For example, I find it curious that Underware’s tool thinks that German and some related languages are not supported if capital ẞ (U+1E9E) is not present. …2 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
That seems a bit arbitrary. With any scheme of ascending and descending figures, there’s bound to be some combination that sits either “too low” or “too high.” It seems akin to concluding that it wou…3 -
Re: Is Bold Italic Not Cost Effective Anymore?
I have a mixed relationship with Bold Italic. As a text-face type designer, I loathe doing the Bold Italic — like James said, lots more work for little additional usefulness. However, as a book desig…6 -
Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?
The practice of maintaining a consistent baseline grid across columns, pages, etc. is actually relatively recent, I believe. Or at least the “rule” that it is somehow wrong not to. In printing of the…4
