Its seems that regardless of how well documented and clearly presented my reports on typographia and kerning are, and regardless of the depth to which I am able to present supporting physical evidence, that the skeptics and the Obotopians will infinitely refuse (or at least pretend to refuse) to accept the truth.
Some people, even those who speak and write with pseudo erudite vernacular, are clearly not mentally equipped to analyze what they’ve read. Not all of us are critical and analytical thinkers.
I present the following pictures for the those individuals with diminished or reduced mental endowments:
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Hi,
I’m interested in the images of the sector-kerned sorts (the ones with the notches). I was under the (mistaken?) impression that sector kerning was only used in some digital technologies, and that mechanical type only used an overhanging kern.
Can you tell me more about the notched sorts? What era they were from, who made them, were the mass-produced or custom, etc.
Thanks!