Here's one application for petite caps. Medieval scribes often used small caps as variants for lowercase letters, and when they did, these were sized to harmonize with the surrounding lowercase lette… (View Post)
Ygt can now save its source to a UFO and export compiled TrueType instructions (and related data) to a UFO (conforming to the UFO 3 spec). "Save As" lets you move back and forth between the… (View Post)
Since the issue of instantaneous (or at least quick) previews has gotten some attention, I’ll report on progress there. The original implementation (re)read the font from disk so as to get a clean c… (View Post)
@"Hin-Tak Leung": Yes, it's got to be worthwhile to see what ttfautohint is doing (if only because it's doing it so fast!). I'll check it out. As for go/golang: I'm always glad of an excuse… (View Post)