... Most typographic - has to be Most typographic - has to be “Meta” beer ... Tiff - Oh but you can hand Tiff - Oh but you can hand letter in any style. Even to the point of it not looking hand lettered. What I ... lettering is perceived by people of “the tangential letter mind.” Michael Ah. Ok, first while I do Ah. Ok, first ...

Forum topic - Asvetic - 5 Sep 2008 - 11:23pm - 85 comments - 0 attachments

... from lowercase. If one were to invent a new uppercase letter, it would have to stylistically match the Roman uppercase. If Unicode ... history of “ß” is somewhat surprising. The letter developed in a two-wise way: as a ligation of long s and round ... and z functionally or phonetically or in the sense of a typographic ligature. Note that up today “Eszett” is also named ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 9 May 2007 - 7:06pm - 248 comments - 0 attachments

... the word “Merubah” simply means “block letter”. It is unlikely that Frank refered to this design because of ... to right-slant Hebrew ’italics’ in modern typographic practice probably originates from copying Latin — for either ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 12 Sep 2008 - 4:54am - 303 comments - 0 attachments

... Standard, version 5: Palochka. U+04C0 “I” cyrillic letter palochka is used in Cyrillic orthographies for a number of Caucasian ... specimen, but the italic is suspect: From a typographic perspective, one should look for correspondences in the alphabet. ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 15 Oct 2007 - 4:38pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... done? There are loads of stuff on legibility but little on typographic layout. ChrisL There is a lot of work on There is a lot ... for measuring the reading experience that go beyond letter legibility and reading speed measurements. With these methodologies you ...

Forum topic - Chris Allen - 28 Oct 2008 - 8:27am - 133 comments - 0 attachments

I would love to be able to hand letter good logos, or compete in this weeks battle, or even have good day to ... what are some good practices I can do to learn how to hand letter beatutiful type? ‹ type battles 1950?s book ID › Yea ... as the person who redefined the asian word notan as a typographic term than it is for you to make type with good notan, then so be ...

Forum topic - j_polo9 - 2 Jul 2006 - 9:19pm - 181 comments - 0 attachments

... But in some countries, you may register new and original letter designs. > bloody con artist ripoff In my terminology, it is ... have their value in the distinctiveness that they bring to typographic design, i.e. design with type, and this is why the question of ...

Forum topic - muzzer - 16 Aug 2007 - 7:33pm - 172 comments - 0 attachments

... I’m involved in a rather frustrating dispute about typographic classification . It seems that most mainstream classifiers (from ... term ’insular’ when referring to particular letter forms, so I still think that is the obvious umbrella term for all the ...

Forum topic - evertype - 19 Nov 2008 - 3:40am - 10 comments - 0 attachments

... ß was recently added to Unicode as U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S, but I can’t find the small capital one. I suppose ... in OT translates to SC/ss ? The “Latin Capital Letter The “Latin Capital Letter Sharp S” is just the uppercase ... vibe I can’t shake. On a purely typographic level, the acute top right shape doesn’t look like part of ...

Forum topic - Tosche - 25 Aug 2008 - 9:59am - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... or just write a good cease-and-desist-or-license-my-fonts letter. Just figure out how to get a search engine to pull up every site using ... Comic Sans? And the type community is against typographic diversity on the web? C’mon! I clearly remember Roger ...

Forum topic - sii - 18 Mar 2008 - 10:36am - 180 comments - 0 attachments