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Ben Mitchell

ohbendy@typo.social

<p>I research and make fonts for Southeast Asian scripts! 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 He/him</p><p><a href="http://fontpad.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">fontpad.co.uk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

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  • Post #1754649

    I see Saek language (ภาษาแสก) has seven tones, which means we need two more tonemarks than Thai Unicode currently provides. ไม้แถรก is a horizontal line and ไม้ซับ is an upward chevron; both sit above the consonant or, like other tonemarks, move upstairs if there&amp;#39;s a vowel sitting on the consonant. The question is: do we use macroncomb u+0304 and circumflexcomb u+0302 (this approach works fine in the fonts I&amp;#39;ve tested), OR do we propose these to be encoded as new characters in the...

  • Post #1691566

    Futura 100 Myanmar now supports Asho and Western Pwo, in addition to Burmese, Eastern Pwo, Mon, Palaung, Pa&amp;#39;O, S&amp;#39;gaw and Shan. ☞ https://www.type-together.com/futura100-myanmar-font #ad #font #minoritylanguages #graphicdesign

  • Post #1691565

    Think I&amp;#39;m gonna call this &amp;#39;lettercrafting&amp;#39; rather than &amp;#39;lettering&amp;#39;. Any other suggestions? https://www.facebook.com/reel/888763683888096

  • Post #1691564

    Nasty bug in Apple&amp;#39;s Helvetica: uni0276 smallcap ɶ is drawn as œ (uni0153), meaning the browser shows two œs in the chart and making the text misleading. SF has the correct letterform.

  • Post #1691563

    Quite a lot of extended Latin glyphs in this WIP font. I&amp;#39;d initially included IPA to help with Unicode proposals, but then thought African alphabets could be included too. Now I&amp;#39;m wondering about medieval, Norse and Celtic characters: has anyone defined character set lists for languages that include those funny letters Ꝺꝺ Ꝼꝼ Ᵹᵹ Ƕƕ Ꞁꞁ Ꞃꞃ Ꟗꟗ Ꞅꞅ Ꞇꞇ Ꝩꝩ Ȝȝ ?

  • Post #1691562

    @dyana แบบ means something like style, kind or sort, I&amp;#39;d read that as &amp;#39;Thai style&amp;#39;, or &amp;#39;in the Thai way&amp;#39;. If you want to say &amp;#39;Thai&amp;#39; it&amp;#39;s just ไทย. If you want to show more letters, &amp;#39;Thai script&amp;#39; would be อักษรไทย.

  • Post #1208631

    My pal Bayu has published some super interesting research about Indonesian perceptions of different writing systems in branding: https://journals.itb.ac.id/index.php/jvad/article/view/24241