Re: reports of Lout's death somewhat exaggerated
Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:21:59 +0200
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On 2015-10-12, 20:24 GMT, Jeff Kingston wrote: > I'm not qualified to comment here. After all this time I still > know practically nothing about fonts, That's so strange thing to hear from the author of Lout ;) > except that I don't believe in them. I've got just one thing > to say to people who think that fonts are good: kerning > subscripts. Well, I am not sure fonts are matter of the personal faith (“Credo in una Helvetica …”, actually that should be probably Garamond to be line with J. S. Bach). Or perhaps it is; looking at https://www.stormtype.com/families/276/download and https://www.stormtype.com/families/376/download is pretty close to a religious experience for me. Anyway, what do you mean by “kerning subscripts”? Best, Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: [email protected] GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property. -- John Locke, "A Treatise Concerning Civil Government"