... what to do with a pluralized word that requires small caps . I have inquired within the pages of Elements, Chicago Manual, and a few ... Atma is pre-OpenType, and has Small Caps = Petite Caps, Mid Caps = Small Caps, and Quarter Caps = “Moyen” Caps. ...

Forum topic - eastonwest - 15 Jan 2008 - 1:14am - 21 comments - 0 attachments

... the smooth reading of the sentences. I tried small caps but their size does the same, and looks out of place to my eye in running ... almost exactly right. I suspect there are no rules on mid caps above what fits with a particular typeface? Three questions: - Has ...

Forum topic - Bendy - 18 Nov 2008 - 3:48pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... I’ve long thought that uncials would work great as caps for the conventional lc (because the classical caps -as august as they ... discussing Winchester, which would have been during the mid- to late-forties. I’m not betting the mortgage on it, though. ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 17 Nov 2008 - 3:51pm - 39 comments - 0 attachments

... But I’m tired of threads like this. Small Caps beat me to it Small Caps beat me to it with Souvenir. In fact, many of ... with every fiber of my being. I bought Papyrus back in mid I bought Papyrus back in mid 90’s it is a great design, but so ...

Forum topic - hanabot - 18 Nov 2007 - 8:02pm - 147 comments - 0 attachments

... serif category due to its lack of bold, italic, or small caps. > I seem to remember that roman inscriptional lettering was ... precursor to Versa, called Nardy, which he designed in the mid-nineties. Peter Verheul might be relatively unknown to most but he makes ...

Forum topic - paul d hunt - 6 Nov 2008 - 1:50pm - 32 comments - 0 attachments

... and then step by step: 1. placed the black stone in the mid of that piece of the cloth 2. asked the heads of the tribes to ... divinely inspired. Cut away the bottom half of the Trajan caps and find any letter that is duplicated in its top form. O and Q maybe, but ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 8 Aug 2008 - 8:26am - 307 comments - 0 attachments

... way or the other. Those earliest sans were Bold and Caps only, and appear to have been used mainly for contrast, in text work. The ... of meeting and studying with Wolfgang Weingart in the mid 80s. He told me about discovering a few old, dusty, forgotten job cases of ...

Forum topic - xurxo_insua - 1 May 2004 - 2:56pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments

... alphabet with lc, and the stuff I've seen is the swash caps. However, I'm still looking for info on this font (so Euclid, ... collection of metal and Ludlow type. This was back in the mid 70s and I think he used to buy old type cases from out of business ...

Forum topic - hrant - 6 Aug 2003 - 3:15pm - 40 comments - 0 attachments

... what used to be “Expert Sets” for small caps and oldstyle figures and stylistic alternates, ligatures, and contextual ... support the optical axis in MM fonts automatically (as in mid 1990s versions of MS Word). Another word for your dream format is ...

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

... This one was originally drawn many years ago in the mid 80’s, with a biro on a restaurant napkin at lunch and then ... were drawn using soft pencil, half-inch tall or so caps. Lovely stuff! I had the Lovely stuff! I had the pleasure of ...

Forum topic - typerror - 12 Aug 2008 - 7:53pm - 70 comments - 0 attachments