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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Donat: Your antiqua solution for capital Eszett is already quite workable in my opinion. I would make the transition from heavy stem to thin roof more gradual, though, like in /U/, and widen the gap …1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Italics are 7-15 degree inclined as well as it is 8-10% compressed to regular design. You can check more info here.1 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Yes, tabular figures should have the same advance width across the roman/italic divide. In the case you mention, I might be likely to make the proportional variants the default.4 -
Re: Non-Latin blackletter
I have seen a couple of exap of blackletter style applied to Ethiopic script. [Yigezu Bisrat typeface by Abass Alamnehe.]5 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
StyleDrop just released by by Google AI https://styledrop.github.io/2 -
Re: Non-Latin blackletter
Cyrillic. AFAIK, these are samples of metal type from early 20th Century. .7 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Aside: While traditionally italics are have been narrower than roman, reflecting the natural compression of more quickly written forms, these days there seems to be a trend towards less condensed ita…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
@"Patrick Griffin" If it were that simple, there would be no distribution platforms, at least not for foundries that have their own online licensing platforms integrated into their websites…3 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Yeah, integrating Type.World into any self-hosted font site takes like a day for any web dev worth their salt. The documentation is exhaustive; I have a flask sample server that you just need to rewi…3 -
Re: Automatically Adjust Font Metrics to Match a Different Font Using `fonttools`
No such thing existed. The Office FontFonts were variants of their original designs with different spacing, different weights, and some detail modifications. They were supposed to render better on s…3
