With my Unicode officer hat on: It's good to hear that font tools are finding the CLDR data useful. Btw, I agree with John: it's a useful first step, but not the whole story. (View Post)
So, in all this time, nobody has mentioned the Unicode CLDR data, which includes exemplar character data for many languages? http://cldr.unicode.org/translation/characters#TOC-Exemplar-Characters (View Post)
The goal you describe, of avoiding dead, redundant or inconsistently-implemented axes, is a goal I share. As for process, my first step was to get the OT spec into a form better amenable to that. I n… (View Post)
OpenType lookups cannot be sensitive to line or paragraph boundaries since there are no glyphs that correspond to these. At best, lookups can recognize the ends of runs (by the absence of any glyph),… (View Post)