Noktasız ı ve baş harfin tuzağı
Türkçede i ve ı iki ayrı harftir, tıpkı o ile ö gibi. Yazılımın çoğu bunu bilmez, İstanbul’u ISTANBUL yapar, ve hatayı kimse bir veri tabanına yazılana kadar fark etmez.
Tag: #letterforms
Eð og þorn: tveir stafir sem lifðu af
Þorn og eð stóðu einu sinni í ensku líka. Íslenskan hélt þeim, og prentsmiðjurnar borguðu fyrir það í heila öld — með stöfum sem þurfti að steypa sérstaklega og týndust jafnóðum úr kassanum.
The broad-edged pen, and what it still teaches
Nearly every serif on your screen is a frozen record of a flat nib held at an angle. Hold a pen at thirty degrees, write an O, and the thick and thin you get is the same modulation a type designer spends a year redrawing.
Uncials, half-uncials, and the shape of a slow hand
The roundest letters in the Latin tradition were written by scribes who had all the time in the world and no lower case to write with. What they left is a hand with almost no ascenders and a rhythm nothing since has matched.