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Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo

Anton Sherwood — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:32:41 GMT

... And I'm not in love with how the continents are not foreshortened as they approach the horizon. One of the US TV news departments made a rotating globe

Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo

Peter T. Daniels — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:36:45 GMT

From right to left, of course! -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... From: Michael Everson ... [Non-text portions of this message

Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo

Michael Everson — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:19:47 GMT

... It is rather alarming that the globe is spinning the wrong way, however. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo

Peter T. Daniels — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:03:03 GMT

The oddest thing is the "serif" at the foot of the lam, corresponding to the left leg of the n. I also like the rotating transparent globe. -- Peter T. Daniels

Modern bilingual commercial logo

Nicholas Bodley — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:35:42 GMT

This company's primary languages are probably Arabic and English. Their logo is an interesting combination of Arabic and roman letters, designed to look

Re: Somewhat off-topic

Nicholas Bodley — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:20:48 GMT

On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:38:51 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Interesting! Thanks. Perhaps it's equivalent to Fletcher Pratt's _Secret And Urgent_, a book about

Re: Somewhat off-topic

Peter T. Daniels — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:38:53 GMT

He was on NPR this morning (or yesterday morning?). He said strange things that suggested this is not the best book about type one could imagine. His favorite

Somewhat off-topic

Nicholas Bodley — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:50:52 GMT

There's a new book, apparently very readable and enjoyable, about fonts (I still want to call them type faces...). I haven't seen a copy, yet, but it looks

Re: strange characters on Persian website

Anton Sherwood — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:33:33 GMT

... After I sent that, it occurred to me that the phrase "all the details" rather begs the question! (A type designer might reasonably say that as a layman I

Re: strange characters on Persian website

Nicholas Bodley — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:37:28 GMT

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:31:44 -0400, Anton Sherwood ... I agree. I think the ability to read indistinct text uses processes that we are

Re: strange characters on Persian website

Nicholas Bodley — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:33:42 GMT

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:31:44 -0400, Anton Sherwood ... You remind me of a record store back when bins of 12-in (~30 cm) vinyl LPs were

Re: Script queries

Nicholas Bodley — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:26:50 GMT

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:12:45 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Wonderful! Makes so much sense; fundamental. Thank you! A person who has learned to use many such

Re: strange characters on Persian website

Richard Wordingham — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:49:14 GMT

... Sounds like Yahoo assuming text is Windows-1252 and destructively straightening the quotes. ... They seem to work fine using LibreOffice (recently forked

Re: strange characters on Persian website

Anton Sherwood — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:31:47 GMT

... A foreigner cannot readily tell what's essential and what's analogous to serifs. (Hilariously, I've seen more than one Angerthas font in which the dots

Re: Script queries

Peter T. Daniels — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:16:24 GMT

The phenomena you describe relate to the writing implement you're using. Stylus on clay? Stylus on palm leaf? Flexible brush? Broad-edge pen? Flexible nib?