diacritics

  • In my last blog post I wrote about doing test prints with specimen sheets and looking at typographic color. It dealt primarily with the basic Latin alphabet and figures. Now I’m ready to push into… (Continue reading…)


  • The previous post in this series deals with round and symmetrical forms including the dot, umlaut, ring, breve, and macron ( ˙ ¨ ˚ ˘ ¯ ). Here in Part 3 I’ll cover marks that… (Continue reading…)


  • Part 1 of this Diacritics series covers the acute, double acute, grave, circumflex, and caron ( ´ ˝ ` ˆ ˇ ). These marks are the ones that are built with diagonal strokes and asymmetric… (Continue reading…)


  • The previous series of posts focused on mathematic symbols, with the last post covering four Greek derived math symbols: Δ ∑ ∏ π (delta, sum, product, and pi). This three part series discusses most (but… (Continue reading…)


  • I’m about to dive into diacritic design for the Protest font I’m working on. Now, I’m actually stalling for time with this post. I found I have a lot more work to do than I… (Continue reading…)