July 2006 Archives

I've been setting up a Technorati Profile, editing a couple of minor things on old posts (with appropriate notices, of course), and working at length on documenting our proposed extended Cyrillic character set. More soon!

"This OpenType font claims to have ordinals according to the InDesign/Illustrator user interface, but I typed "2nd" and applied ordinals formatting, and nothing happened. Closer inspection just yields more questions - why do virtually all OpenType fonts have ordinals for "a" and "o," but many fewer have the usual "st" "rd" and "nd" ordinal letters?"

That was essentially the question in a recent email I got from my esteemed former colleague and Illustrator guru Mordy Golding (see his Web site or his blog).

I'm five or six weeks late, but I'd like to publicly welcome Miguel Sousa to the Adobe type development team. He's the new hire we came up with from the search I blogged about way back in January.