Comments on: Ordained Ministry of OpenType

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:38:05 +0000

Nathan – it’s a fair question. That ligature is historically found in many serif text faces, but it’s not a common script lig. One of the reasons Alejandro’s faces work well is that the ligatures are usually used to enhance the natural flow of the type, not necessarily for decoration.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:32:25 +0000

I hope this won’t be taken as a criticism, but I was surprised not to find a ligature for “sc”, the one with a gratuitious loop over the top. Deliberate or just forgot?

By: Shay

Shay — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:04:23 +0000

It’s a beautiful, beautiful work. I just wish I had a good reason (or some spare money) to buy it, just so I could play with it. Right now I’m just staring at the PDF, zooming in and out…

By: DANIEL

DANIEL — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:19:47 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Dirk.

But can a single code point consist of a combination of two or more characters/glyphs (or is it always a single character/glyph)? Say the classic combination f and i. Could that be a single codepoint that triggers an alternate glyph like the ligature fi?

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:41:28 +0000

Thank you!

By: Dirk Llewelyn

Dirk Llewelyn — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:40:48 +0000

So now they know.

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:44:26 +0000

See?

By: Dirk Llewelyn

Dirk Llewelyn — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:20:25 +0000

A codepoint is a point in unicode; for the most part this is comparable to a “character” in type-1, except that unicode is a 32bit code (of which only the 16bit ones are currently being allocated), and that it also incorporates symbols and codes for stuff like zero-width-non-joiners, etc. The code2000 font has glyphs for 60000 codepoints (including unofficial ones like Klingon).

A codepoint can be encoded in many encodings, like UTF-8, which may take as little as 1, or as much as 6 bytes to encode one codepoint. This is why it’s handy to refer to codepoints as codepoints and not as characters, doublebytes, or whatever.

Ministry script has many alternate glyphs for single or multiple (automatic ligature) codepoints.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 09:55:12 +0000

What is a codepoint?

By: marian bantjes

marian bantjes — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:09:40 +0000

It’s an absolute stunner. Congrats.