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Re: Best practices for multi-script families
There’s also the commercial perspective, of course. Nick already hinted at some aspects. Also, if you bundle everything in one font, then your pricing might be prohibitive for those licensees who onl…2 -
Re: Best practices for multi-script families
I recommend putting Latin, Cyrillic and Greek in the same font, on the principle that it’s easier for foundry, reseller (if any) and customer to manage and negotiate. I did once split up a family by …1 -
Re: Best practices for multi-script families
Ha. Simon wrote exactly what I wanted to write, with the three perspectives. I've been in all three. Setting multilingual text, especially for closely related scripts/languages is a pain when th…2 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
In case anybody is curious about results, here is a Google font I forked to make an oblique with Italify. The italified masters are in the main file, not the (old) Italic file, which you can use for …2 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
I've added the TN profile.1 -
Re: Best practices for multi-script families
OK. There are three perspectives to consider when planning and distributing large multi-script families: * The designers' perspective. How many designers will be involved in the project? Will yo…7 -
New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
After almost four years of working on and off on an algorithmic approach to optically corrected obliques, the completely overhauled Italify is ready. With the initial version of the plugin, which is …9 -
Re: Where's my 1099 at MyFonts?
If you don't receive a 1099 through no fault of your own, you have to file Form 4852: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4852.pdf. This gets you off the hook for fines and such.2 -
Best practices for multi-script families
Is it recommended to separate font families by script? I see some multi-script families choose to split into different fonts per script (Futura Latin, Futura Cyrillic, Futura Georgian) and other time…1 -
Re: Hinting Variable Fonts
As part of the more general move towards Rust-based font tooling, I'm currently in the middle of porting ttfautohint to Rust. This won't allow us to autohint variable fonts immediately, but…7
