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Indices : (Type Design) How To Section Design Considerations: Drawing Glyphs Spacing ... Drawing Cyrillic Characters Drawing Symbols and Miscellaneous Technical Considerations (basic): Glyph Naming ...

Wiki - k.l. - 17 Mar 2008 - 5:10pm - 0 comments

Agamemnon continued, v.34 Cherokee, Greek, Cyrillic updated

... Icelandic ligatures, and a whole lot of currency and miscellaneous symbols. And the snark, uppercase eszet, ruble sign, & ... me, since it is one of several “S” shaped symbols, which looks just mangled in the official font and is distinguished ...

Forum topic - cuttlefish - 9 Sep 2008 - 2:49pm - 54 comments - 3 attachments

Opentype feature access to unusual characters

... These seem reasonably intuitive. Is there any reason not to implement them? Anything else that could be added? ‹ Windows Vista ... case because they don’t have their own codepoint, so how should we access them/provide access to them? The current practice ... symbols”, and another named “Miscellaneous symbols”, how do I create that in the font? > if I ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 29 May 2007 - 9:45pm - 48 comments - 0 attachments

Windows ignoring unicode (sub)range

... — which are at 239B through 23B1 in the “Miscellaneous Technical” range — are the parenthesis, bracket, and ... for that suggestion, jdaggett. Still awaiting word on how it displays in Windows. He should only do so, if the He should ...

Forum topic - Selwyn Hollis - 23 Apr 2008 - 3:38pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

What do you call fonts that...

... fonts, (presumably short for pictogram or picture) and are symbols, logos, line drawings, fleurons, etc. I don’t know if there ... is traditional, but makes about as much sense as “miscellaneous” or “other” or “bizarre” or ...

Forum topic - Renaissance Man - 18 Mar 2008 - 6:00pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies

... I don’t dare open my Geez, I don’t dare open my miscellaneous office drawer — I know I’ve got a set of French ... also go boxes of Lettraset and Geotype, (type, drafting symbols, halftone film and colour overlay film, custom printed logos) and some ...

Forum topic - pattyfab - 11 Feb 2008 - 9:04am - 73 comments - 0 attachments

Math Symbols

... of fonts, some appear to have drawn font specific math symbols, but many seem to have standard math symbols. Is there a standard ... using Adobe Standard Encoding, there are about two dozen miscellaneous "math" characters which will be called from the Symbol ...

Forum topic - aquatoad - 16 Dec 2003 - 6:56pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

Kerning Tables in InDesign?

... the help topics or the InDesign book I own seem to explain how to do this in InD. I’m using Perpetua and for some reason the italics ... Quotation marks with all kinds of math symbols or miscellaneous glyphs? One may refer to them in a text and surround them by ...

Forum topic - rosaiani - 9 Nov 2004 - 11:42am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

What is the connection between blackletter and violent / extreme culture

... that the Nazis had been printing books, newspapers and miscellaneous texts destined for abroad in Antiqua for a long time. Therefore, ... with the commercialization of subcultural styles and symbols, for example tatoos or piercing (“H&M-Punk” or ...

Forum topic - Thord - 19 Oct 2006 - 6:29am - 139 comments - 0 attachments

Extra chars in Unicode font

... of space! There are existing Unicode codepoints for miscellaneous arrows: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf ... to add symbols that are not similar to any of the encoded symbols, you should encode them in the Private Use Area, where you can freely ...

Forum topic - fues - 17 Jan 2005 - 4:59am - 6 comments - 0 attachments