I am curious to know what fonts people are using for the Devanagari script. I want good #hindi rendering. Please don't suggest fonts which use a character map to render Latin characters as Devanagari characters.
Suggestions for other #indian language fonts are also appreciated. Thanks!
We have released a new library: TypoRules for #PHP 🎉
It is not actually new, as we have been working with it for years to enable outstanding #typography in our #web and #print applications. What is new is that all functionalities are now available in a bundled form and as #opensource.
We really need to gather various #typography related #CSS properties that are scattered across different browsers without full support (or with just partial support) and make it into an #interop2025 focus area.
Like ascent-override (please, Safari!)
Or font-size-adjust (come on, Chrome!)
Or… initial-letter (hey, Firefox!), though, there are also so many ::first-letter issues!
Or text-box-trim & text-box-edge (ok, these are only there in Safari TP)
…I’m browsing the Fontstand website and am getting sucked in by the new News section and articles like the one by Dan Reynolds @typeoff with OH no Type Co @ohno about getting into the flow.
There is so much here it's overwhelmingly wonderful and all so well designed. Thanks, @fontstand.
For A Project™, I need to learn about the historical origins of #bitmap#fonts. Highly doubt these were first created on computers; where in the world have rectangular #tiles or #bricks carried a textual message? (The tiled signs in the #NYC subway are #mosaics, not based on a grid.) Where did bitmap fonts really start?
Ferdinand Ulrich (@ferdinandulrich or @ferdinandulrich)'s journey to finding the history of digital type pre-postscript started when we spent time with 92 year old Jack Stauffacher at his Greenwood Press in San Francisco.
Nope, I don't think I can do Oliver Schöndorfer's talk justice.
He artfully weaved between pro and con accessibility stances (and clearly came out on the correct side, of course) - while acknowledging the troubles people have trying to understand and implement accessible design.
There was so much more to this talk, I recommend you go watch the video once it's publicised!
Is there a punctuation if you want to say something, but also signal that the other person could correct it (so something between "." and "?"). The interrobang ‽ has a different meaning.
One of my favorite road signs in all of Missouri, seen heading west on Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.
I very seldom drive there, but when I do, I love to startle the rest of my family by saying "Look everyone, we're coming up to Bryan ..." then screaming "ROAD!" at the top of my lungs.
I'm not sure why they decided to make "ROAD" uppercase, but I am forever grateful.
This morning there was an interesting presentation at #lgm about using new typographic ligatures to make written language more gender-neutral. Great ideas with graphically interesting solutions. Thanks to the "Bye Bye Binary"-collective. https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/
I missed this book when it came out, so excited to finally pick up a copy. Brick Index from Patrick Fry. Yep, that’s right it’s a book of pictures of British bricks, 154 of them, and it’s wonderful
Off topic, but that's an interesting typeface they're using there. It has a non-slanted italic font!
I won't say it's good, per se. The difference between the roman and italic fonts is subtle enough to be difficult to distinguish, and some characters, like U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T, have the exact same glyph in both fonts.
This might be a bit of a stretch, but do I know anyone who does something like brand identity #design work? Or who wants to? I'm thinking about stuff like logos, #typography, brand colors, and related. This would be for a personal #OpenSource project, so the budget is small but non-zero.
#Typography Tip Tuesday! Know your numerals (or figures). There are 4 different kinds and a well made font should contain all of them:
Proportional lining
Proportional oldstyle
Tabular lining
Tabular oldstyle
Top 2 rows: Proportional numerals have varying glyph widths, just like most letters and symbols. Oldstyle numerals’ letterforms have ascender- and descender-like designs.
Bottom 2 rows: Tabular numerals have a consistent width.
New e-library opened in Finland today on the 29th of April, but the release is very buggy. Tried giving some feedback, the feedback form vanishes. #eBooks#eLibrary#brownPatterns
Ooh, @Codeberg just updated to @forgejo version 7 and… ta daa, the spurious warnings in the code listings for proper curly quotes and other correct – but sadly underutilised – typographical elements in comments and strings are gone!