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Re: New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol
Unicode 17 will be released in a few weeks, and no further technical changes will be made. So, code point assignments for 17 are fixed. Unicode 18 is still almost a year away from having technical de…1 -
Re: A few questions about EB Garamond...
I am sorry to say they feel… quite “off” to me. I mean, I shouldn’t have been able to tell that was how you went at it — I could tell in that they seemed manipulated in that particular way. It is not…1 -
International Convention on Jawi and Malay Heritage 2025
Dear Friends, Pleased to hear that Jawi script is honored and the heritage of South East Asia is raised at the International Convention of Jawi and Malay 2025 by the Islamic University Sultan Ahmad S…1 -
Re: Seeking newby advice for setting up kerning classes
In my opinion, to understand the concept of "kerning by classes" it would be a good idea to try it in free FontForge. The built-in wizard is logical (though I might think so, as I use it my…1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
Yes, that functionality was added a bit later, in response to complaints about the loss of x-direction deltas in the first release of ClearType. Initially, it didn’t seem to work reliably.1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
If you mean obscuring them on the server side, possibly, although the first served subset contains the patch table with all the information necessary to grab the other parts.2 -
Re: A few questions about EB Garamond...
I think the most complete is that of Octavio Pardo As you can see on GitHub, Octavio Pardo's repository hasn't been updated since 2021.Between April and May 2023, Georg Mayr-Duffner created a "T…1 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Aha! I found another tool I was trying to remember. AFDKO has a tool called “StemHist” that does this. In fact, I wrote about it 10 years ago on this very forum: “AFDKO tells you how many stems have …3 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Ah, pattern recognition –that goes, of course, a long way back: see also the pages 11–16 of this PDF from a talk Peter Rosenfeld gave at the DTL FontMaster Conference in The Hague in 2009. The Passe …1 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
In fontquant, XOPQ is measured using the H character; that's what Berlow's schema requires, I think. Frank's answer suggests to me that there might be a clever way to do things by applying an autohin…2
