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Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
To John Savard’s point, Hudson and I are splitting hairs, but that is a very typographic pursuit. As we all attempt to come to terms with new technology, new perspectives emerge. I doubt I would have…4 -
Re: Minneapolis/St. Paul Type Design Interest Group
Wow, I didn't expect quite this much enthusiasm! It's great that there's something to build off of, too. I'll get in touch with Michelle and hopefully see some of you in person so…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
@"Rishi Murugesan": Set up some sort of metrics after drawing your first few glyphs. Review occasionally, during the early stages of design. Recheck again once the design is reasonably lock…3 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Nick, trying to conflate my comments about uninstantiated ideas with something like unnamed or unmastered locations in a variable design space not only doesn’t make any sense, it doesn’t look like go…1 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Well, it’s more generative than fixed-size subsets of non-class pairs were, which is why we use it: it provides a way to kern more, more efficiently, and to extend kerning from pairs that you know ex…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
First off, the relative sizes of your actual caps, x-height and actual glyph ascender and descender should be dictated by the design, not by any theoretical metrics requirements. There is no need or …4 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
Before deciding on the metrics its also quite practical to consider room for the diacritics, both top and bottom ones... all in all is better if the don't exceed 20% of you metrics (for example:…5 -
Re: MATH table in Fontlab 7
The MATH editor tool is nice as it provides a visual UI but be warned, it's clunky and contains bugs which result in the application crashing. Still, better than nothing.1 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
By some reason I do not receive the authentification email, anybody have experienced the same issue?2 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
While on the subject of test words, here a couple of mono-space tricky samples from Finnish, which has a bunch of uncommon (in English anyway) double-vowels and double-consonants:2
