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FontJit, a tiny utility to lazy load fonts
For whom it might interest, I just released a tiny little font loader to be used on websites where you want to be in control of loading the font: FontJit. Because it doesn't make sense to show the te…7 -
Re: GSUB: replace by nothing, a.k.a. deleting a glyph.
Even though the OpenType specification prohibits it, FontCreator allows you to define entries in a multiple substitution lookup with no output glyphs. This is a trick to delete glyphs, and seems to b…5 -
Type-X, a Chrome extension to test your fonts on any website
This was the first big font project I was commissioned on, for Arrow Type, so I'm happy to report it's been updated and working smoothly in modern Chrome again! With thanks to Simon Cozens and Dave C…7 -
Re: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can?
I disagree on kind of all counts. It is NOT a convention “ that ascenders must stay within the bounding box, while diacritics are more free” That statement doesn’t resemble at all what John Hudson w…5 -
Re: Examples of Greek capital ου ligature wanted
A side note: Greek ligature ΟΥ was proposed to Unicode in 1998 by Michael Everson and rejected because it has no single character meaning. It was used since Byzantine times, but always as a represent…5 -
Re: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
Two things stood out to me: Aging customer base. We burned millions (on AI) and got nothing.8 -
Re: Capital Eng
The automatic emoji replacement suggests that B is the cooler option, though.6 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
People have explained to you multiple times that no data leaves your computer and all processing is done locally. I really don't understand what's going on. Again, I'm not forcing you to use it. If y…5 -
Re: Help Typedrawers find a new home
We use discourse for our forum. And I’m very happy with it. We self host on a Hetzner server for less than 4 € per month. And I checked some time ago and there is an importer for vanilla forums.8 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I’ve had personal experience that suggests otherwise. Someone passed copywriting to me that was obviously generated by a chat bot. I see plenty of other folks doing the same: using AI as a replacemen…5
