Perhaps most Qalamites know of it: I did not. It shows font samples, and at least in some cases, the sizes for a given writing system have been adjusted for...
Here's a book that you're *supposed* to burn. http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/13/well-done-a-food-company-annual-report-that-has-to-be-cooked-first/ Report from...
Hi there! I'm going to spend a few days in Rome, Florence, and Milan in January... Do any of you have any recommendations of manuscript, typography, and/or...
Hi, I'm sorry because almost all the website are in italian only. Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana http://www.ambrosiana.it/ita/index.asp Biblioteca Trivulziana...
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... Do any of you ... museums that I ... illuminated manuscripts, ... There is a "museum of writing" in San Miniato, about 30 km from Florence, on your road...
Hi all, First off, my best holiday and New Year wishes to you all. Second, I received a truly wonderful gift this year, which I thought I should share with...
That is very cool. On flickr you say the artist is based in Portland -- judging by your location (as per your web site), I'm guessing you mean Portland,...
It seems to be appearing more often in advertising typography as a stylish replacement for [A]. I first noticed it in the logo for the KIA (ΚΙΛ) car. ( I...
... IIRC, they did indeed use a short crossbar in Greece, though it didn't span all the way from one leg to the other. (I think it started on the left leg and...
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:02:41 -0400, Philip Newton ... This kind of info has a great deal of appeal for me! Thank you, indeed. I spent some time at the Greek...
Even though text messaging allows for the use of all sorts of shorthand & spell-as-it-sounds conventions like nite for night, tho for though, BRB, BTW, and the...
Philip Newton wrote ... a stylish ... (ΚΙΛ) car. ... Well, Kia are well known for their weird spellings, such as "Sorento" with a single R, or...
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:47:48 -0400, Marco Cimarosti ... I've had the same thought for some time, seeing the logo and saying "Kil" to myself sotto voce. (How...
... Character 0xCB (decimal 203) is Lambda in ISO-8859-7/Windows-1253 but E-diaeresis in ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252; I'm sure the reason is related to that. -- ...
... This reminds me that some hyper-sensitive people complained that the name KIA is offensive to war veterans (particularly those of the Korean War) because...
... company's ... "Kil" ... I say it to myself that way as well. As Adecco displays its name with a final medial sigma, I tend to read its name as a drawled...
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:15:37 -0400, Philip Newton ... Thank you! Sorry for a delayed acknowledgment. Best regards, -- Nicholas Bodley Waltham, Mass. The weapon...
I was looking at some Thai crosswords, and I wondered what scripts people do crosswords in. In Thai crosswords, the items in the squares are preposed vowels,...
... Hebrew crosswords work as you might expect, with just the consonants. Since spelling isn't completely fixed in Hebrew, clues sometimes will note that a...
I need a Unicode font for Armenian. Unfortunately _every_ usable Armenian font I find at various sites omits the Armenian letter lower-case h; they simply...
Peter, ... I know nothing about Armenian, but this page has a number of Armenian fonts on it: http://chanae.walon.org/pub/ttf/armenian/ I looked at erevan.zip...
Thank you -- I hadn't found that page. It's amusing that its contact language for roman-readers is ... Romanian! grginor is the only one on the page that...
I don't think I've ever seen Walloon orthography. I believe I've just seen your name, though, while I've been hunting for Unicode fonts. -- Peter T. Daniels...
I've downloaded several fonts that are supposed to include Glagolitic according to the new Unicode standard 5.0 or even 5.1, and I cannot see them, either in...
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