I am Ruben Tarumian, a type designer from Yerevan (Armenia). I have an architectural education, but after graduating from university I very quickly switched to type design. I have been creating fonts… (View Post)
Mod here! Probably some raccoons chewing through wires in the backend. I’m all seriousness though, this is a question more for James as it’s possibly a server issue. We’ve had other issues popping up… (View Post)
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Ben Blom has done and shipped a bunch of 3333 UPM fonts for OT-CFF. I do not know of anyone who has done higher than 4096 in either format. (View Post)
The earlier versions of the Brill types were 1000 UPM, so I went to 4000 to give me more refinement but without introducing rounding errors. Using power-of-two UPM was a Microsoft recommendation for … (View Post)
That’s only one of the problems with Ray’s approach. It also means that text is being broken to achieve a visual result in one particular font. The text is no longer searchable, indexable, or sortab… (View Post)
We used 4096 a couple of times on Microsoft project, I recall, but for TTFs. For a long time, there were bugs in third-party PDF creators that presumed a 1000 UPM for CFF fonts, causing scaling and/o… (View Post)
Here are some old threads on high-UPM fonts: https://typedrawers.com/discussion/75/opentype-ps-with-2048-upm https://typedrawers.com/discussion/123/maximum-upm-for-otf-fonts/p1 (View Post)