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Re: Grid Test of Letters
These are called test strings or as Arnold Bank used to call "necklaces". My favorite lowercase necklace is "nu" between each lowercase glyph. As John Hudson says, for sidebearing…4 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
For reviewing primary (non-kerning) spacing, I find the best test to be between key glyphs that do not usually require kerning. For Latin uppercase, this is usually HAHBCHDHEHFHGHHHIHJHKHLHMH... Lati…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Font Studio was very nice, but a little buggy. And it didn't get many updates before Letraset stopped working on it. Eventually it was bought by Adobe. Not sure what they did with it. [Edit: Act…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Grid test (never heard of it) actually doesn't seem very useful to me...2 -
Re: Small Capitals
With regard to petite caps, it is worthwhile to consider the nature of the typefaces for which Zuzana Licko designed them, such as Mrs Eaves, which had a short x-height. The smallcap / petite cap dis…3 -
Re: Small Capitals
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Re: Small Capitals
I feel somewhat obligated to point out that a very, very small percentage of potential users will even know about, let alone use, petite caps. I don't bother adding them to my typefaces—smallcap…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland said: Yeah I bet that was the issue. Just tried the 2.5 demo version on my SE/30 (which has FPU) and seems to run great: Also hats off to whoever added this …8 -
Re: Small Capitals
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like the small caps and the petite caps are a bit too wide. The S is a bit ungainly, near the terminals. The stroke is thinning weirdly and the terminal cut is at …1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Somehow I forgot RoboFog, the customized version of Fontographer 3.5 that changed type design forever by integrating Python, later spawning RoboFab then RoboFont.1
