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Re: Kern pair dump script
Also, you can use this https://github.com/impallari/Contextual-Kerning-Tool1 -
Re: Kern pair dump script
I have one for fontlab5 that export the advanced widths and the kerning pairs to txt https://github.com/impallari/Impallari-Fontlab-Macros/blob/master/IMP%20Specimens/Get%20Data%20for%20Specimen.py C…1 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
I think that makes sense if one is supporting large character sets that cover African languages as well as European ones. African use of the letter, in its (1) form, is much more widespread than any …1 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
Regarding your latest regular weight, the relationship between the thins and thicks, to me, seems a bit haphazard. For example, the middle horizontal strokes of the a and e are different thicknesses.…4 -
Re: How to fix jagged diagonal lines?
Ah. I see, yes, you are talking about an optical illusion and not a rendering issue at all.1 -
Re: FontBakery checking
I think it is required to avoid ambiguity, as some use fontRevision while others extract the font version from the version naming field.1 -
Re: FontBakery checking
Argh, yes, in Font Validator, the warning is W1314: https://github.com/FontVal-extras/FontVal-RX/blob/17fd2b13f5e902107f98c5e01203ad9301eb8dda/GenerateFValData/OurData.xml#L9343 With the description:…1 -
Re: Can my variable font axis snap instead of slide?
At the font-internal level, there are essentially two ways to do this. One is to set your avar table mapping such that an entire input range maps to a single value. There will be some unavoidable tin…1 -
Re: Typeface timeline
That’s an easy one to answer: 1985, when Emigre showed designers that they could design, build, test, and release typefaces on their own (albeit with the tedious work of putting the fonts on floppie…3 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
Historically they had vertical overlap (undercut) in the 16th, 17th century. Also they mixed fonts with different baselines, e.g. 14 pt for emphasis within 12 pt text. Maybe they puzzled it together …1
