Chapter 8. OpenType & Expert Sets
What I love most about the recent revolution in electronic design and communication is the explosion in the awareness of typography. People who, ten years ago, didn’t know there was more than one typeface in the world now scrutinize menus and advertisements and posters, wondering what font is on the page.
It also never ceases to amaze me how quickly we become inured to the magic, how quickly we find that what we have isn’t enough, how quickly we want more and better and bigger. It’s hard to imagine that we could want more than the standard set of 256 characters in a typical font, which is many more than we had on typewriters. But we do, and that’s just the way it is. And that’s why several of the major font ...
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