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Re: Regular vs Book
I recently read We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nihisi Coates, published by Random House in 2017. The colophon identifies the typeface as Bembo, but it is good and solid, so appears to be Bembo Bo…3 -
Re: how to construct large math operators
This is handled by the MATH table in the font. The MathGlyphConstruction subtable tells the typesetting engine how to construct large or wide versions of a glyph, either directly through variant glyp…3 -
Re: Regular vs Book
That comment arrives at the drawback of “book” as a label: it feels like an optical size but usually is a weight.2 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
A couple further thoughts on this topic. I’d say “design for screens” used to be approached completely differently because of the hardware. Screens used to be relatively predictable. Those tasked wit…11 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Right, thanks for the clarification. Essentially, a reference to the separate PS font file was added to the existing Mac screen font format (NFNT), which already supported everything else, so that yo…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
The printer font contained the outlines, and the spacing, but neither kerning nor menu name and style linking information. All that was in the (Mac) suitcase file which also contained the bitmaps or …2 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Powerpoint had a better but less popular competitor back in the day, Aldus Persuasion. It's too bad it didn't make it. When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it released a Windows version of Pe…6 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
This was because the font metrics were stored in the bitmap font file. The "printer font"—i.e., the PostScript part—contained the outlines, but not the metrics (spacing and kerning). But, y…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Of course, no prediction of the future can be “true”, but don’t you think that there is a strong likelihood that the warnings of Aza and Tristan about what could go wrong due to AI, will go wrong? Ha…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Actually, you said that, not me. (I don’t pepper my posts with “fucking”.) I prefer my “indoctrination” to whatever kool-aid you’re drinking!1
