I’ve posted many of my type design proofs to Github. They’re licensed under the MIT license. Included are proofs for testing glyph forms, spacing, kerning, diacritical marks, Devanagari conjuncts, book layouts, etc. The repository is:
https://github.com/DunwichType/DTF_Proofs
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many thanks for sharing it with us.
Do you see a chance to convert those files to the InDesign exchange IDML format?
This would give those people a chance who work older InDesign versions (like me)
PDF would be cool too.
Thanks,
Thomas
PDF is pointless as the text could not be edited and the formatting is not copy/paste friendly. The fonts used for the Latin are just Times New Roman and Myriad, which don’t even support all of the glyphs in my most recent work, so they wouldn’t even make good reference.
thanks for the IDML files!
These will help a lot.
Cheers Thomas
It’s important to remember that there’s no such thing as an exhaustive list of kern pairs. Proper nouns break every spelling rule, especially in Eastern Europe. So prepare for everything, but don’t kill yourself proofing it all.
Please keep in mind that you first do the spacing properly. A font should work without any kerning as it did in cold and hot metal setting.
I agree except for letters you're negatively spacing in order to compensate an eventual lack of kerning (this was particularly pronounced with the early PostScript fonts where kerning pairs were limited and there was often no kerning between V,W,Y and lc) – because it actually worsens pairs which don’t usually need kerning, e.g. VH or VN etc.