... fonts are all the rage today. Are there any critiqes of the format, or discussions of its limitations? How many typesetting ... intermediates per axis, of TT variations. AND! the ease of development (for normal everyday designers) that were presented by variations ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... to use the ampersand character (&) instead of the actual word “and”? {Moderator: Wiki link added.} ‹ ... spaces when initals are used, e.g., “Research & Development, Inc.” but “R&D, Inc.” __ ... most obvious way that Latinization affects a non-Latin script is in the imposition of ’foreign’ formal elements such as ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 9:57pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... a she) i designed her on screen (and on paper of course), but in the further development i'll try to cut the letters from wood and make a set of wooden ...

Forum topic - titus n. - 26 May 2004 - 2:43am - 50 comments - 0 attachments

... used typeface and descided to scan it and make a font out of it. Intentionally I just wanted to use it as an excercise for future fonts, ... (really) That is really (really) interesting. The development of characters (like & and ß for instance) is not ...

Forum topic - Characters - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:41pm - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... movement towards this, featuring various forms of the simplified tonos accent — dots, vertical dashes, and ... and inappropriate for the formal characteristics of the script. In reality, this must be tempered by the context in which it was ... script at the time. The Didots’ contribution to the development of Greek typeface design is seminal, and very much not in a ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 14 Jul 2007 - 1:57pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... screen use, e.g.: a. alignments quantized to a norm of 8, 2 for descent, etc. b. vertical stems quantized to 8, Cap round and ... notan. Combining Y-direction AA with x-direction CT is a development for display sizes. I may well have been on someone’s radar ...

Forum topic - dberlow - 20 Mar 2006 - 1:28pm - 158 comments - 0 attachments

Between the two world wars the typography of the Romanian newspapers followed the general development and the use of serif typefaces for the body type. The concern for ...

Forum topic - arina s. - 29 Apr 2006 - 7:00am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... system for this building: The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ( http://www.pafa.org ) as a school project. I need to ... I think Lawson would back me up on this one: The development of the group of types called square serif parallels that of the ...

Forum topic - dave bailey - 3 May 2006 - 8:23am - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... as the context. I would like to offer a version of my font Army Pool Tiles ( which has kerning pairs ) in a reverse mode. ... rather than a limitation of applications and font some development tools. Tom Phinney: Note that you Tom Phinney: Note that ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 1 Nov 2005 - 8:36am - 89 comments - 1 attachment

... 2005-07-26 12:34 / Shinn / Hrant challenge ... the mass of everyday experiential evidence indicates that readerability matters much ... the roost in conservative periodicals, and a lot of font development follows the money, directed at this market. However, it’s ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 11 Aug 2005 - 6:46am - 76 comments - 0 attachments