{"id":12694,"date":"2010-01-18T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/01\/18\/small-caps-and-the-numeral-1.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:03:30","slug":"small-caps-and-the-numeral-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/01\/18\/small-caps-and-the-numeral-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Small caps and the numeral 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been linking to various posts having to do with the use of small caps in typesetting.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/news\/gore_s_choice\">Gore's choice<\/a> explains Al Gore's request that the numeral 1 in a particular font be made to look more like a 1 and less like a capital I.<\/li>\n  <li>In response, <strike>fawny<\/strike> Joe Clark [see comments below] rants about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fawny.org\/2010\/01\/11\/goreschoice\/\">the evils of small caps<\/a>. (\"Use of small caps for acronyms and abbreviations is a surefire indication your compositor is a snob.\")<\/li>\n  <li>Aegir Hallmundur at Ministry of Type <a href=\"http:\/\/ministryoftype.co.uk\/words\/article\/small_caps\/\">responds<\/a> that small caps are not bad per se; it's more a question of how and when to use them appropriately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been linking to various posts having to do with the use of small caps in typesetting. For example: Gore&#8217;s choice explains Al Gore&#8217;s request&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}