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Re: Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?
The set could also be named “Square-Round Cyrillic”. I tend to think of these two styles of Cyrillic like of blackletter vs. roman or katakana vs. hiragana. The so-called Bulgarian Cyrillic is not ne…2 -
Re: Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used
In Sofie Beier's Ph.D. thesis Typeface Legibility: towards defining familiarity we can read on page 59 One way of preventing the ink from dissolving the letterforms in the smaller sizes is by opening…1 -
Re: Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used
I could easily be wrong, but I suspect there was no single inventor of ink traps. Cutting little notches into the type blocks would seem to have been an obvious way to mitigate a common problem that …4 -
Re: Anti-Ink-Traps
I see this forum is so much more about psychology than I initially thought. I can't count the times I wanted to post a new discussion or answer but abstained because I was too anxious about being put…2 -
Re: Notes on the rendering of Garamond and Caslon typefaces when set at small sizes. Also, a request.
Thomas, I think your argument is unproductive and unhelpful. Fiz’s question showed taste and discernment. As it is likely that his taste had been formed by his examination of printed books, my respon…1 -
Re: GSUB lookup processing: only ever one action?
Yes, Karsten picked up on the following paragraph which indicates what the processing model is. I'd still like to see things stated more clearly in the spec, though.1 -
Re: Slow Learner Needs More Advice
As far as I can tell, your roman is done; it looks perfectly good. If understand you correctly, you're perceiving a mismatch between the steep bowl-to-stem join of /a/b/d/p/q and the shallow bowl-to-…1 -
Re: Slow Learner Needs More Advice
You're at a point where questions like "Is roman /Z too wide and /H too narrow?" no longer have an objective answer. It is up to you, and that's a choice you should feel confident in making…1 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Or... They'll just go ahead and use it in their commercial project without thinking twice about it. Because, who'd know?1 -
Re: Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications
Text is split into runs before shaping, and one such run boundary is in between different scripts. Adobe’s apps do some additional processing (e.g. “optical” kerning) which also works across scripts.…3
