Chris Simpkins

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Saudi joins rarefied league of nations with a currency symbol

Saudi officials say the newly launched riyal symbol will reinforce financial and national identity.

TypeDrawers

Accented letters in font names

Hello, I designed a new "Art Nouveau" font and named it "Café-concert". Am I right to believe that the font title is correct, even with the /é/ in it?

Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem - Canva Engineering Blog

CVEs in three strange places and the unique problem of safely processing and handling fonts.

Rolling Stone

Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing?

Viral posts and clips on social media suggest the em dash is the product of AI chatbots, with some calling the punctuation mark a 'ChatGPT hyphen.'

On fractional scales, fonts and hinting

GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the 'Large Text' setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK has...

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Fonts | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Fonts chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering where fonts are loaded from, font formats, font loading performance, variable fonts, and color fonts.

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