@TiroTypeworks @alerque@mastodon.social @boldmonday
Three ideas:
- The aim is to have minimum space in UC+UC, merely to avoid contact (think of sequences VT, FM, AN, etc.).
- Kern for all possible pairs, not only UC+LC (I agree with @alerque).
- The target is all society, not the minority of tyographers.

@TiroTypeworks @boldmonday In Keynote, Numbers and many other, maybe a character style with ‘all caps’ feature would answer for this need, but one cannot assume the user will create one. Conclusion: kern pairs at the font level.

@TiroTypeworks @boldmonday Without (not only the most basic) kerning, using any typeface on apps such as Keynote or Numbers would have terrible consequences.

Saddened to hear from colleagues about the passing of Andrew West, whose proposals and commentary were important contributions to the encoding of historical Asian scripts in Unicode.

https://sei.berkeley.edu/2025/07/18/in-memoriam-andrew-west/

I hope provisions have been made to maintain his BabelStone site and software.

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/

The word 'ye' in names such as Ye Olde Inn ('the old inn') was originally simply pronounced 'the'.

The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation of the first letter.

'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe'. The first letter, þ, was called thorn. It was a letter for the th sound that originated in Old English.

Where did þ come from? How did it disappear? And why was it substituted by y in the word 'ye'?

Click my new infographic to read all about it:

“Where our first conference was themed around the visual experiences of writing, this one focuses on visual engagement – subtly shifting the emphasis towards active participation in practices, processes, traditions and acts of writing.”

https://viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-visual-engagement/

@pagedjs exists!

if you want to have news about web2print, cssprint, html2print or any other words that transform web technologies into books or printed stuff, you’d get the latest update about paged.js from that account.

@ben I’ve just known of a Catalan/Valencian author that started putting across his fiction content. He offers newsletter or RSS, and I subscribed to two RSSs.

STOP WAR !
Calligraphy Art from Barbara Galinska (Warszawa, #Poland)
#activism #art #calligraphy #democracy #fascism #freedom #humanrights #iran #israel #life #noWar #peace #protest #resist #solidarity #ukraine #USPolitics #USnews

@alerque Thanks. I will try harder. (And yes, faux small caps be damned.)

@Luke 🤷🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️

The Script Encoding Initiative now has a blog.

https://sei.berkeley.edu/blog/

@Luke So much to do to improve the experience here.

@gbergfalke But… the price. If it weren’t for the price…

The paper for my keynote from the ATD3 conference is up on Design Regression:

❝What is a (universal) script grammar?❞

https://designregression.com/essay/what-is-a-universal-script-grammar

Let me know if you have any comments.

cc: @ANRT @ecal_ch

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that life needs to be as complicated as we've made it. I mean, it's already challenging just to be alive. Do we really need six kinds of insurance, 12 paid streaming services, unreadable terms and agreements, and traffic?

WE DO NOT.

@alerque A question regarding Libertinus typeface, if I may: how can I use small caps in InDesign. According to "Features.md", they can be accessed "by high-level CSS properties or values and by GUI controls in DTP software", but I don't see the way.

@stux@mstdn.social

I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people.

We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who want to protest. We are currently helping government agents know where and when protest may happen.

If you have any Facebook apps - Facebook Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram -- Uninstall the app.

@harrymccracken Entirely agreed.

@DunwichType @klim Thank you. I will check it.