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Re: Which is the best free font editor?
To be clear: I like free software and use lots of it. My favorite is Inkscape, which I prefer to Illustrator. I install Inkscape and Fontforge on every machine I touch. I use LibreOffice Writer and C…1 -
Re: Fontra Pak as a snap app for Linux desktop
I’ve made many abortive OpenBSD attempts myself over the years. I probably fail because I end up only throwing ancient hardware at it, saving the newest stuff for Windows. I’ve had slightly better lu…1 -
Re: Fontra Pak as a snap app for Linux desktop
I won’t even bother attempting a dual boot setup. I run Windows on a separate machine. A bootloader configuration is just one more thing to break.2 -
Re: Fontra Pak as a snap app for Linux desktop
Although snap version of fontra is functional, some non-ubuntu linux users are not using it because snap is difficult to set up in their system, and some users do not like the proprietary store back …1 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
FontLab does fine with nested lookups—as does any other tool using AFDKO syntax coding—: you create and sort the lookups separately in the first part of the OTL code, and then associate them with fea…2 -
Re: Hebrew dagesh ḥazaq proposal draft
My dagesh ḥazaq proposal now appears in the Unicode Document Register as L2/25-175.1 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
It is also possible to create color fonts with fontforge using some planning and a workflow using additional libre software like ot-svg and nanoemoji. I have created a color emoji font and a color va…2 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
But, “Typedesigner,” the question wasn’t “what is the best font editor for professional type design,” but “of all the free font editors out there, which one is the best?” At no point did OP say “I wa…3 -
Re: How to assess what optical size(s) a given type style is intended for?
I've been exploring a bit using LibreClarendon VF as a Parametric Font, using both the typical Parametric tables as proposed by Berlow, and adding my optional Darkness tables... This is how the tabl…3 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
I offer a small correction to Thomas: While I would agree that Fontforge "seems unlikely to see major future updates", since working with its source code is laborious (more on that below), …3