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New font renderer written in Rust
Haven't gotten a chance to check this out in detail, but this project to produce a new font renderer using the Rust programming language looks very interesting: https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-t…5 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
Hrant, I'm going to respond, because I want you to know that I appreciate the fact that you took the time to write at length and try to clearly communicate your ideas. The problem I have with this is…6 -
Font Validator 2.0 arrived.
A few people had said that I should give it numbered versions over the course of last year. I have always thought that when I have finished filling in all the parts that Microsoft did not release, an…7 -
Re: A FontLab 6 intervention
It does seem super important to have separate windows if you're used to an traditional style font editor. The fact that you can only do certain things in certain kinds of windows (font window, glyph …6 -
Re: A FontLab 6 intervention
Tired of constant FL 5.04 (build 48 something something / Mac) crashes, I jumped over to RoboFont and than Glyphs a few years ago. From my point of view, 50 % of Glyphs success is almost 24/7 custome…5 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
I have a specific type of dyslexia (or a close cousin of it) called dyscalculia, which mainly affects one's ability to process numerical relationships. Unlike the more familiar dyslexia, dyscalculia …10 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
Attaching the name of your employer to that font only keeps the junk science alive. The editor who approved this book needs to be given some well informed reading material before that awful paragraph…5 -
OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)
During the keynote talk at the Microsoft Build conference, at 2:22:51 Kevin Gallo showed a slide outlining the new developer-related features of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that will ship in th…5 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
While I am skeptical of such typefaces, I suspect that there may be a “placebo” effect (as long as they aren’t significantly harder to read). In other words, knowing that a typeface has been specific…8 -
Re: Dyslexie font - activism
My hypothesis is that the anecdotal success of Dyslexie is a combination of the placebo effect and disfluency enhancing reading comprehension. The reader expects Dyslexie to be easier to read so conf…7
