John Hudson

  • Re: Which is the best free font editor?

    FontLab does fine with nested lookups—as does any other tool using AFDKO syntax coding—: you create and sort the lookups separately in the first part of the OTL code, and then associate them with fea…
  • Re: Is this a scam?

    For large corporate clients, this isn’t unusual. They need to register suppliers as vendors in their system in order to process payments. That’s been the case for all the big US tech companies we’ve …
  • Re: What AI tools does the font community need?

    I enjoy kerning. It is one of the easier tasks in font making, and is the stage at which one really starts to see all the parts of a design coming together (this is why, despite my best earlier effor…
  • Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?

    Back in 2008, when work first began on the Brill types, there was a known issue with some third party PDF tools and viewers incorrectly assuming that all CFF-flavour OpenType fonts would have a 1000 …
  • Re: Punctuation Space U+2008

    I include an extensive set of space characters in most of our fonts, including the narrow non-breaking space U+202F. I set it to the same width as the thin space U+2009, i.e. about 0.125 of the em.
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