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Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
Here is the relationship between values. The "Line Gap" on the drawing is the value you define for your font in the font-drawing software, in your case Font Lab. "Safe Top" (ascen…1 -
Re: Does one kern a duplex font?
Identical kerning should be shared among the duplex/multiplex/uniwidth weights. Martin Majoor’s Comma Base and Nick Sherman’s HEX Franklin have identical kerning across their entire weight range, res…6 -
Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
* By default, Illustrator used actual ascender height to calculate vertical position of the first line in the bounding box. To change that, open menu / Type / Area Type Options, and change the First …1 -
Re: Looking for useful Math Symbols ( K-12 Grade use ) with Unicode numbers
Unicode has over 100,000 characters. The most practical way to access them all with a keyboard is one that allows typing the codepoint. (Typically this is in hexadecimal, although there is no technic…1 -
Re: The future of combining marks.
This came up at the OTL implementation meeting last week. Kamal Mansour from Monotype refloated a concept that he and I had first proposed to the OT mailing list a few years ago: a new cmap subtable …1 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
I’m making a series of documentaries, starting with an exploration of an idea which emerged in this thread, concerning the relationship between chess type and chess pieces. Also included, some observ…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
@"Ramiro Espinoza" How do you define ‘monopolistic companies’? How do you survive a legal challenge against exclusion from an individual or company that claims it is not a monopoly? [Note, …3 -
Re: Fontbakery feedback
I'd like it if the profiles were a bit more like plugins, so that you can configure FontBakery dynamically. For example, at the Type Founders we have our own private profile with checks that are very…1 -
Re: Fontbakery feedback
Huh, I must have missed that in the documentation. Great, that solves my issue! Thanks!1 -
Re: Fontbakery feedback
Another good improvement would be implementing the code to fix the detected issues. For example, fontbakery can calculate italic angle, caret slope rise and caret slope run. When detected values are …1
