From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 18:05:50 EST
At 12:57 11/7/2002, Michael Everson wrote:
>Apple's LastResort font uses a rounded box for all of its glyphs, with
>letters and other things inside them. The Last Resort .notdef glyph has a
>number of backslash diagonals filling the interior of the rounded box.
>Quite effective.
I think the .notdef glyph in the conext of the Last Resort font serves a
slightly different purpose, since it is not indicating only an absent glyph
but an undefined character code. I agree that it is an effective design,
cleverly combining the rounded frame convention established by the other
glyphs in the font with the back-hatched fill convention familiar from the
Unicode glyph charts to indicate a reserved or otherwise undefined codepoint.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
It is necessary that by all means and cunning,
the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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