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Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
Suggested best practice: Give them their correct Unicode values, and make sure they are nicely grouped when they appear in a Glyphs palette (position while in Index mode).The circled numbers are in t…5 -
Money for Fonts
A “slide show essay” and retrospective, addressing the evolving context of my 46-year career as a type designer. This 31-page PDF is best viewed in full screen mode, in landscape format on a desktop,…21 -
Re: Tabular punctuation in the font with both Lining and Oldstyle Figures
Why not make both oldstyle and lining tab figures with the same width? Imagine that a typographer has prepared a complex table with oldstyle figures and the client says “Nah, change the figures to li…3 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
One big innovation in the Latin alphabet was the adoption of the single-story ‘g’ as a roman (upright) character. This occurred at first in a few grotesque typefaces in the late 19th century, but bec…3 -
Re: Creative Market: "A new era of font creation"
Unless the names of typefaces such as “Gotham” are prohibited in prompts, the Butterick law suit will be pertinent.2
