Philippe Verdy wrote, > The purpose is not to invent new designs but present designs > that are easily read and convenient for each script ...
Based on what I've seen so far, Monotype has done a splendid job. No doubt involving plenty of design work. Philippe Verdy has outlined some of the design decisions already, and it should be noted that designing a pan-Unicode font (or font collection) for multilingual text display using easily read script-conventional glyphs probably isn't as easy as it sounds. <off topic> The word "free" when applied to any product means "free of charge". "Freeware" appears to be a contraction of "free software". If so, the two terms are identical in meaning. If not, speakers of standard English would consider them so. It's too bad the promoters of "free-libre" software didn't call it "libre". Creating an artificial distinction between identical terms in order to promote a philosophy some reject smacks of Newspeak. </off topic> Best regards, James Kass
