Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Sun May 25 18:53:19 EDT 2014


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> I like Georgia. It has lowercase numerals.


​The technical terms are "ranging numerals" or "text figures" vs the
modernist "lining figures".
Each has its purposes, but it's a very good sign if an oldstyle font
includes ranging figs in at least on variant. ​



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