21:0221:02, 21 July 2022diffhist+41
Typography
Added back Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) to the list of supporting organizations. They have held an annual typography conference for over 20 years, which is about as well-attended as the ATypI conference, and are generally well-regarded. Deleting them was an error.
23:5723:57, 24 March 2020diffhist−346
Type design
Eliminated the bizarre assertion that there is a difference between type design and font design. Type designers create fonts, few in the business ever refer to “font design,” and nobody draws this distinction in practice. Also, nobody ever calls it "typeface design"—that is not a thing.
00:0600:06, 1 February 2020diffhist+238
The Club Dumas
Undid revision 934126771 by Wylie39 (talk) I don’t know who did those anonymous revisions, but they were clear and significantly more accurate than the version that was reverted to. So, reverting the reversion.Tag: Undo
07:2407:24, 20 January 2020diffhist+1
Text figures
Changed "typeset" to "designed"; the varying heights is not a function of the typesetting, but of the design of the glyphs. It is not like the typesetter is shifting them up and down.
04:3104:31, 22 November 2019diffhist0
KGRE (AM)
→El Tigre: Wrong date—see the referenced article. (And dates made no sense before, he acquired the money-losing station in 1998, and it was profitable by the end of 97? nope.)
00:0300:03, 8 November 2019diffhist0
Microsoft Word
→Layout issues: TrueType > OpenType : the cited feature description references OpenType, not TrueType. The feature works with OpenType fonts, regardless of whether they are also TrueType fonts.