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Re: Hinting, is anyone still using it?
I did a hinting project 2 weeks ago. Given the long tail of low resolution devices I think there will still be value in manual hinting for quite some time still. And I feel it especially so when I lo…1 -
Re: State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens
Simon's talk at our Fonts&AI conference was excellent and we uploaded it this week for public viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xukQSnynk This is a highly complex and rightly contro…3 -
Re: Vertical metrics standards
It seems weird that the "Ascender" metric is "the highest thing in the font", rather than the actual height of ascenders.1 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
The one time I kerned against space I released the typeface and someone immediately complained that it turned “for you” into “foryou.” One step forward, two steps back.1 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Undeniably true. On the other hand, one might argue these are not typographically critical or sensitive circumstances. There can clearly be diminishing returns to the kitchen sink approach. Each type…2 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Some font checkers require that maths symbols are all the same width, so I guess they fall into the same category as tabular figures: they are expected to have a fixed width and not be adjusted.2 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
I generally kern more pairs than strictly necessary in real-world use, but I find it’s easier than evaluating the usage likelihood of every pair. However, I rarely kern math characters or most symbol…1 -
Re: State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens
Understood; I did not mean that as a criticism. Mostly, Typedrawers is already having those discussions in other threads, so it would be more interesting (to me at least) to focus this particular thr…1 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Lowercase-uppercase pairs appear frequently in names styled with InterCaps, which, beyond brand names (eBay, PayPal, TypeDrawers...) includes the names of some countries, and also many real (famous,…1 -
Re: State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens
I got a bit of flak because in the article I put aside the ethical and legal considerations. That doesn't mean I don't think about them or have a position on them. It just means that I had …7
