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Actually, this is Catull Regular with minor manual changes. It was created in 1982 by German designer Gustav Jaeger for Berthold. Also see this.
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In general, from a strictly technical perspective, the answer would involve making outlines of the font in Illustrator or another vector program, putting those into a new font file (I use FontForge to make fonts), and then adding the characters you need.
In your case, perhaps you could find some way to make Trajan work with Sell Your Soul, since the font ...
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No.
It depends entirely on the font. Some fonts have the superscripting built in, others provide you with relatively full height glyphs. Among those that are predesigned, there are varying levels of optimization for varying point sizes. That last point is critical.
The principal considerations are:
Make sure the glyphs are legible (some go with the ...
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The only problem I see with "footnote" and "reference" is that these are slightly restrictive words. "Annotation" is the all-encompassing term for ALL the types of marks you are referring to: footnotes, endnotes, corrections, and captions are all annotations.
So seeing as how you want to avoid over specifying, "annotation marks" is the least leading phrase ...
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Summary
If your server dishes out pages with ligatures (like smartypants does), search engines are inconsistent. Bing currently doesn't index the ligatures right. I'd say in general, it's asking for trouble. Since search engines change, there's a method below you can use to test how search engines you're interested in index ligatures.
If your server dishes ...
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Based on the one live example I saw I would be extremely concerned with extensive use of this because it will affect SEO. The special characters get parsed as Unicode so Google's algorithm will not read it. It should be fine for sparing uses but I wouldn't go crazy with it or use it on anything important like a title.
Here is the link to the live example I ...
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Absolutely!
Well, it's absolute in my head any way ;)
A readable text finds the right measure based on three main variables:
Type face (and accompanying spacing preferences)
Type size
Text
Those variables are going to dictate how much room your text needs to properly set up a line.
If the language or type of writing* you're dealing with averages more ...
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You have a few separate issues here, first I would recommend pointing the designers towards either
http://www.fontsquirrel.com and http://www.google.com/fonts/
These sites container CC fonts that work perfectly on the web and are completely free to use, and there are instructions on the site on how to add them to your websites - as well as a download so ...
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Here my earlier answer to essentially the same question at Game Development Stack Exchange.
To summarize, like the other answers here suggest, you should generally use either black or white, depending on which one contrasts better with the background. (Of course, if you like, giving either color a slight tint won't affect the contrast much.)
Note that, in ...
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Copy original shape
paste behind
move pasted shape so it is offset from original shape
fill pasted shape with pattern
adjust edges of pasted shape to align with original path.
TIP
You never need to create a diagonal line pattern in Illustrator. Simply create a vertical or horizontal line pattern, then apply it to a shape and use Object > Transform > ...
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Constantia would be a better fallback than Times New Roman for Garamond, and Corbel would arguably be a better fallback than Arial for Proxima Nova. They may also have Gill Sans installed with some software, plus Open Sans is not bad.
I'd put something like:
"Adobe Garamond Pro",Constantia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif
"Proxima Nova","Open Sans","Gill ...
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Looks like you're on the right track. I just code the page and try swapping fonts with something like FireBug to see what fits best.
Times is going to pose a problem for you. It won't match up with the metrics of Garamond (or Hoefler) at all. Try falling back to one of the newer MS fonts like Constantia.
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