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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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