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@marcotoa You appear to have misinterpreted my comment. I did not say that Հ (Ho) resembled Ը (Et), I said that Ը (Et) resembled Հ (Ho) because of the part

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Sample 1

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i guess you could say this is… twelvetica

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To summarise, in modern Armenian fonts, using the R-without-vertical stroke is increasingly seen as a major design faux-pas.

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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test of diacritics, note that this rule is not applicable to the diaeresis or the macron etc because it takes ONE y pixel only.

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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There is a formula where for two-pixel height diacritics, like an acute, tilde, grave, circumflex (aka caret), ring etc should take 0.5 y pixel for

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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For accented characters, I decided that the ring in the letter Å should not be attached onto the top of the letter A because it can lead to inconsistency with the

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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Similarly, it is strongly discouraged to use f for "ք" or r for "ր".

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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Recently I realised that the "R-without-straight-line" variant was an anomaly that is, created in the late 20th century after the rise of Unicode, because typographers were struggling to make the traditional zigzag

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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It is based on the Segoe UI or SF Armenian style

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comment by marcotoa on “not_cake Cmptrmn 1.5”, Wed, 26th august
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The Armenian* capitalised Հ, ho does not resemble Ը

 

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Lucas2763 has just published “Hyper Sans (alpha)”
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I'm using this.

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_HEELAL has just published “px Verdana Cyrillic 8pt”
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USER3110 has just published “HorseMen Sans”
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@four: Thank you for your feedback. I studied a few tall and slim fonts, and learned how to manage tight spaces or extreme angles. I'll make a few sample pics later.

PS.: Where is Elmo? Does anybody know it?

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comment by Frodo7 on “Salice Sans”, Tue, 25th august
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Your approach to A, K, M, N, R, V, W, X, Y and the inclusion of inktraps work well.

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comment by four on “Salice Sans”, Tue, 25th august
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@Patrick H. Lauke (redux) - That's an interesting design for the ‘A’.  If the ‘R’ wasn't so distinct, that's what I would have thought it might be -- an ‘R’ !

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comment by Goatmeal on “Katakis (C64)”, Tue, 25th august
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Patrick H. Lauke (redux) has just published “Katakis (C64)”
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Is it me or does Ը kind of resemble Հ (Bolorgir style)?

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