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It depends on what route you take to export your instances. FontCreator allows you to export your instances and optionally removes overlap on the fly. It is always wise to double-check your exported … (View Post)

I could certainly have used a kerning application to space Softmachine, in which the closest proximity between every glyph combination is equalized. So I don’t deny that a kerning tool might be creat… (View Post)

RealAmrIsmail : > Anyone knows how I can turn ligature off [email protected] Your given example shows two (2) drawbacks: bad ligatures & bad kerning. So, why turn ligature off entirely?! Is not the b… (View Post)

There are two aspects to this: 1. How a font maker assigns individual ligatures to different OpenType Layout features: rlig, liga, dlig, and clig. 2. How an application interacts with the shaping eng… (View Post)

Crowbar uses the Harfbuzz logging, i.e. it is directly being told by the shaping engine about each lookup that is processed in turn. (Basically it is just a pretty wrapper around "hb-shape -V&qu… (View Post)

In my opinion, one thing that makes designing ligatures tricky is the fact that the apparent whitespace is extremely size-sensitive. What may seem like the sweet point at the extremely large sizes at… (View Post)

Whenever big companies get into NFT I wonder if they got duped into it by some consultant, or if they actively set out to defraud their customers, or both. In the meantime, I'll wait for fontcoin or … (View Post)

Rialto is available on Adobe Fonts which should help its spread, but I don’t think I have ever seen it anywhere on the web (well, except for my own usage). Maybe part of luxury is a design being an a… (View Post)

This week, I have been reading a book set in Adobe Caslon and it reminded me that the problem I have with the Th ligature is not its existence but that it is too tightly compressed horizontally: the … (View Post)

I struggle to apply the word luxury to a font. The concept just doesn't fit - it's simply not a meaningful adjective to use. For some, a banana might be a luxury, for others a Ferrari. Perhaps a hot … (View Post)