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... notes that the single-story open-tailed monocular miniscule of maddening mulitple moniker fame is closest to Spurius's original ...

Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 1:21pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments

OpenType Superiors Feature: Why do letters and numbers have different baselines?

... use a very long list of superior small cap and superior miniscule letters (a smorgasbord of forms derived from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, ...

Forum topic - dan_reynolds - 19 Dec 2005 - 1:52am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

New Type Term

... a role in determining that shape. Thus, the adoption of miniscule, that is, lowercase letters, as a book script is significant for the ...

Forum topic - hrant - 28 Sep 2005 - 2:02pm - 61 comments - 0 attachments

Localised dollar signs

... all of my currency symbols in both majuscule/lining and miniscule/oldstyle, I propose that Euro refer to the former, and euro to the ...

Forum topic - kris - 14 Jul 2007 - 12:41pm - 49 comments - 0 attachments

Cartesian Area

... the very sensible observation that the forms of the Latin miniscule developed during the Middle Ages in the writing of a particular ...

Forum topic - titus n. - 26 Nov 2005 - 11:38am - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Eric Gill

... proportions and characteristics of the Trajan column. The miniscule letters of the face were designed to be in complete unison with the ...

Wiki - Richard Hards - 25 Oct 2008 - 12:33pm - 0 comments

why is serif still used today?

... cultural sphere dispositionally oriented to the carolinian miniscule and its pairing with the Roman inscriptional capital. (With the ...

Forum topic - missgiggles - 1 Dec 2006 - 6:36am - 117 comments - 0 attachments

The Best Hundred

... Alcuin, the scribe, though, who codified the Carolingian miniscule. I recently saw the exhibition of oldest Bible manuscripts at the ...

Forum topic - satya - 4 Feb 2007 - 1:10am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Bible Centaur

... want to play Guess-the-typeface?] Carolingian Miniscule? If you are up for a visit to London, you'll find that the ...

Forum topic - raph - 8 Sep 2004 - 1:26pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

greek ductus

... may not have been seen as ontologically distinct in the miniscule when this writing was being made. And our seeing them as such may ... least provisionality when talking about 'serifs' & the miniscule forms in early Latin calligraphy. Certainly it takes a while for the ...

Forum topic - docunagi - 18 May 2007 - 6:24am - 61 comments - 0 attachments