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Re: Seeking parties available for technical reviews
Google Fonts can do this for OFL fonts that meet the other gf requirements. http://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide provides all the information, and if you ask them to post here their "add font&q…2 -
Re: Punctuation Space U+2008
I include an extensive set of space characters in most of our fonts, including the narrow non-breaking space U+202F. I set it to the same width as the thin space U+2009, i.e. about 0.125 of the em.2 -
Re: Typographics, anyone?
I’ve stopped flying because of the climate crisis, and am reluctant to drive into the US, given the present administration. So am confined to Canada and online, these days.3 -
Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
It is a choice how you think of your family and, hence, how you name the fonts, but personally I think of width variation as a higher level style grouping than weight because regular-to-bold weight m…3 -
Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
I’m unsure how to interpret that statement, and in the internal design units of the typeface you can set the axis scale however you want, but the wdth axis scale as specified in the OT spec indicates…3 -
Re: Typographics, anyone?
I was there. It was pretty good. It’s always a pleasure to catch up with people, and the biggest reason I keep attending. It was number eight for me (first one was 2016). I’ve always stayed at the Ho…7 -
Re: Can the custom fonts be installed into Iphone/Ipad???
I haven't seen anything to indicate any change to the way fonts work in iPadOS 26 from the current version. Given that they're making the new OS work more like macOS in many ways (menu bar, "nor…1 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In a very warm Antwerp, with the kind help of an enthusiastic handful of volunteers, the EcTd panels were mounted yesterday for the In Plantin’s Footsteps 2025 exhibition at Museum Plantin-Moretus. T…4 -
Re: Type Reference
There is more information on Letterform Archive’s image reproduction rights here: https://letterformarchive.org/image-rights-reproduction/1 -
Re: Type Reference
yeah, existing efforts, museums, libraries, and archives are the competition for this sort of thing. still, if you have a specific point of view or focus on objects that are a little bit outside the …2
