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Speaking @ Portland IDUG, visiting TypeCon Atlanta »

July 7, 2009

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Just a quick note here. As posted on the Extensis blog in more detail:

I’m speaking this Thursday (July 9th) at the InDesign User Group right here in Portland, Oregon.
I’ll be at the TypeCon conference in Atlanta late next week, and happy to meet people there and answer questions.

Cheers,

T

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Alphabets of Europe (EverType) - Shows alphabets and Unicode values needed to cover each language
Alt Indie Typo - Project to make a free, open source font superfamily, starting with a linear sans serif. Must apply for access.
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Panose font classification system - Panose is used for matching similar fonts, and Panose data is present in many fonts
Polish diacritics (accents) how-to - How to design/implement accents for fonts supporting Polish
Readability of Text research by Dr. Lauren Scharff - Psychology prof in visual perception, lots of interesting papers
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