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One thing I did in response to the original post was, after following the link for Hind, look at the other typefaces for which fonts were available at the Indian Type Foundry.Since, historically, som… (View Post)

Work has started on OpenType 1.9.1. This will be a relatively minor revision, though there will be one significant technical change: The COLR v1 spec for sweep gradients will be revised to simplify t… (View Post)

Nick Sherman’s brilliant implementation of the variable format to kerning, in his new Franklin, features kerning axes that represent two different paradigms. That the end-user may now vary the style … (View Post)

Also, I have a revised and bigger kern proof that I can email you. Just send me your email address in a private message. (View Post)

This is something I've been toying with a lot this year. I'd been using Latent Diffusion for a few months and had lately begun Midjourney. I agree with your 5 year roadmap. As for AI not being access… (View Post)

Consider a sequence like င်္က္ကျိ. This will turn out to be something like: ka-myanmar | kinzi-myanmar | virama-myanmar | ka-myanmar | medialYa-myanmar | iMark-myanmar When you form the kinzi_iMark l… (View Post)

A typical procedure for skipping a glyph like this would be to categorise the /uni103B/ glyph as a mark in the font’s GDEF table, and then to filter all marks out of your ligature lookup processing b… (View Post)

Hey guys! I'm a beta tester for DALL·E & Mid Journey, they are both Artificial Intelligence companies. They have tools in which you can input an idea as text and it will graphically create images… (View Post)

It is a small thing, but you keep on writing “kerning” when you mean “spacing.” Kerning refers to adjustments between specific glyph combinations (such as “AV” or “To”), whereas spacing is the more g… (View Post)

The way I handle this in Myanmar is to make a ligature with the IgnoreBaseGlyphs flag set in the rphf feature: 
feature rphf {
 lookupflag IgnoreBaseGlyphs UseMarkFilteringSet @abovem… (View Post)