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(Quote) Ugh! GX is a defunct brand name for a display and layout technology that Apple abandoned in the 1990s. I recall that when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he decr… (View Post)

(Quote) I've not encountered this. It doesn't seem like an intuitive terminology: I would have thought 'local' would be more common than 'static' in the sense of an installed font being used to displ… (View Post)

I like putting the default at-sign low so the "a" part aligns with lowercase letters, so I include a .case version centered on cap height. (Image) If oldstyle numbers are the default, perha… (View Post)

In Glyphs, you can set up any number of custom kerning strings in a text file (or multiple text files), including multi-line samples. In the past, I used InDesign documents for checking kerning, but … (View Post)

Your ultrablack weight is barely bold. Making too many weights with too-light heavy weights is a common beginner’s mistake (I’m guilty!). And this is a display face, not an editorial headline face wh… (View Post)

My recommendation would be to sort by a custom .enc file glyph list, rather than trying to sort by Unicode. That's always the tidiest option for control the GID order. (View Post)

It's quite irritating, posts that I've clicked are not marked as read anymore when I return to the main page. It used to work until about a week ago. Is it only me, or has anybody else seen the same? (View Post)

It only started for me a day or two ago. (View Post)

Do you have a copy of Fiona's book on Bengali type? It covers the pre-PostScript digital technology pretty well, and of course her team at Linotype worked on a lot of different South Asian, Southeast… (View Post)

When I moved to the Bay Area in 1997, the cost differential was nothing like it is now, but it was still striking! Enough so that I declared that the best was to understand it was as a foreign curren… (View Post)