Here's an example from the brand new font 'Gather' which was created by another redditor here. In the later 'humanist' manuscripts, you tend to see letter combinations such as these, where the capitals slot inside each other - and in many digital typefaces, such combinations are categorised under ligatures too. It was the imitation of all these features in hot metal type, that in part made books like the Gutenberg bible an extraordinary feat. Here's an example though you may be somewhat thrown by the archaic letters 'long s', half r (aka r rotunda), and insular d. Still, I'm not a fan.Īs this is already answered, I'll add that the past is a treasure trove and you may be fascinated as I am by medieval manuscripts (there a hundreds which can be viewed online) and they include contextual alternates, scribal abbreviations (many which we still use today), and ligatures - most notably of a kind called 'biting' or 'fused' letters, where the bowls of letters (like o and c) overlap.
One of the original purposes of ligatures was to make the lines of eg the Gutenberg Bible all the same length. Haha, yes, but the main reason is so that they can justify the text without using spaces or hyphens. But then there's one that's rounded after a 'W'? The fuck is going on here? Some of the 'E's are angular, but they follow angular letters like 'K' and 'V'. The more I read this the more frustrating it is. Must be because it's at the start of the sentence? It's not the start of the word because, again, those two 'THE's don't have it. Also, please use a cleaner colour scheme.
#Adobe caslon font pairing reddit windows#
Here is the list for Windows 7, this is the list for Windows 8. So not Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Adobe Caslon, Tw Cen MT, Baskerville, Gill Sans, Rockwell, Century Gothic or Bernard MT. OP, you would need to use only the fonts that come installed with Windows. But that one has a ligature for 'TH' that doesn't show up anywhere else. Exactly this, most of these are not system fonts. I want to see more signs made this way to get a sense of the rules of the ligatures.įor instance, why do both 'i's in Maritime have tittles? It's not because they're next to a 'T' because the 'I' in 'NATIONAL' doesn't have one.Īnd all of the 'T's rise above the cap height except for the very first one. Association Typographique Internationale.Handwriting – among other techniques – cannot. Glyphs: The symbols in a typeface that represent characters like A, ! or 5.Type: Printed or digitally reproduced glyphs.Typesetting: The act of arranging physical or digital type.Typography: The art and technique of arranging physical or digital type.Rule of thumb: If your submission is about Comic Sans MS misuse, bad keming or a funny typo, it’s likely better not to post it.ĭo not use URL shorteners. Only exception: It’s educational and non-obvious. No memes, image macros and similar submissions.No lettering, calligraphy, handwriting, graffiti, illustrations.Something light and sans-serif, perhaps, even italic If not Caslon and a light sans-serif, then what other pairings would make sense Somehow I'm not drawn to using normal/bold combination of the same font though. Handwriting – among other techniques – cannot. For the sutta text I thought to use Caslon but can't quite come up with a font for the modern commentary.
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