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Re: Margo Chase & Madonna
I’m not convinced, Florian. A rough tracing of squished Times Roman would give a better match, and would have been a more practical method than “cleaning up” the more gnarly Caslon Antique, back in t…0 -
Re: let's talk Greek kai symbol
Nonetheless, George’s proposed <locl> & to Ϗ substitution would be a brilliant piece of decolonization font activism. Any backlash would only serve to publicize the issue—and promote those …1 -
Re: let's talk Greek kai symbol
In that case, the typographer would not use a font that subbed & by ϗ, but choose another font overall, or switch for the one character. But how often would that occur, other than in programming …0 -
Re: let's talk Greek kai symbol
But it would be no different than, say, Bulgarian Cyrillic <locl> substituting д by (something that looks like Latin) g. Because it’s just a glyph shape change (to ampersand.kai), not a change …1 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
The ductus could be the same (“one stroke’) in both your written examples, John—the difference being that in the second one, the pen has been lifted off the paper, to touch down again at the top of t…0
