Unicode character support in fonts beyond the standard “western” letters and punctuation is a wild and largely unexplored territory. Font designers can be a little more free and have a little more fun because those characters are so rarely used. After all, how often do you “type in” a letter that’s not on your keyboard? … Continue reading Use the best available braille
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Use The Best Available Snowman
Sometimes people get a little wacky about fonts — and by wacky, I mean obsessive. Something that recently bubbled up into my online reading is a particular obsession with the ampersand. Typographers do not get to use the ampersand all that much and most fonts have incredibly boring ampersands, so when the time comes to use an ampersand, … Continue reading Use The Best Available Snowman
Sticks and Scones May Break My Bones
Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2004/11/First order of business: It seems I have 411 DVDs (or rather, DVD titles, as some titles have up to 15 … Continue reading Sticks and Scones May Break My Bones