From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 03:16:11 EST
Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote:
>> And this grid doesn't even particularly fit the characters.
>> Two big rules of Latin typography are that the capital
>> letters are all of the same size (visually, at least)
>
> Is this true for accented capitals or only for "English" letters?
>
> AÀÜUÇGJQO…
>
> Did I yet again read too fast?
Maybe. Think "base letter," not "letter with combining diacritics."
Also bear in mind that capital J and Q have no descender in some fonts.
"All of the same height" might have been more precise.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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