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I know that most people are building variable fonts from inside their font editing software, but if your chosen font editing software doesn't provide good variable font creation tooling, you're left … (View Post)

It turns out that "Sylloge" is a generic term, and the actual work in question is titled Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta in Augusta. Thus, I was able to find the work, and to provide an image … (View Post)


For FontLab users to avoid assigning the double Unicode values manually the script provided by Adam works perfectly. (View Post)

The new /f_f/ might be overcompensated just a bit? Certainly much better than before.As for the /Germandbls/, I feel there's much room for improvement. Luckily, I know just the infographic to help yo… (View Post)

AFDKO is an older set of tools and libraries that was created to convert between various font formats. Its most-used components were those for converting Type 1 fonts into CFF-based OpenType fonts, f… (View Post)

@"Matthijs Herzberg" and anyone else on Windows who tried that AHK code for better Alt-zooming experience... It seems while adding comments to post it, I accidentally deleted the first line… (View Post)

Our own code. (View Post)

Duplicating glyphs is not a good idea as it just increases file size and makes kerning more work (keeping classes in sync). In Glyphs, you just delete the lowercase and run Glyph > Update Glyph In… (View Post)


And not only culture… I agree. I see John’s point is about current usage, but in general this specific work (which strictly speaking is not even a typeface) would be for *very* conscious use… (View Post)

For a few years I've been double mapping all of my all-caps fonts. I leave the lowercase blank and add the lowercase Unicode value to the uppercase. The only downside I've found is that the MyFonts u… (View Post)