I've started yet another font. I wonder how many now I've started but haven't finished. This one, however, is starting to look quite good. I made a sample image to try it out using the font's name on a picture of its namesake, and I think it looks much better this way than it does in black on white:


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Here's something interesting: A Japanese typewriter:

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Well, I've said it before: the people I talk to on IRC find the strangest things. Vlad has just shared with us this scan of 17-century homosexual literotica:
You may find it a little difficult to read because of the old typography. Just remember, the letter that looks like an f without the crossbar (but in this font it has a barb on the left where ( Read more... )

I'm reading something just now about Esperanto orthography and I found something interesting:

Very occasionally characters in a novel will be distinguished by individualizing the quotation marks used for them.This is in regards to the variation in quotation marks used in Esperanto, usually following local standards. We use raised comma-like “ ( Read more... )

I've been looking for a good font that has all the characters needed for Ancient Greek. In the mean time, I've noticed some bad design, so I have a complaint about ( Greek typography )