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Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
I was thinking in terms of an extensible system. The value of automating some basic control values is that a font maker doesn’t have to go and manually measure things every time they start a hinting …1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I’ve been enjoying this thread, covering a time I remember well. It was the era of the democratization of font technology (at least for the hegemonic Latin alphabet); its (necessary) successor, the O…1 -
Re: Basic rules for bearing
Here is a tutorial about how to generate the metrics:Glyph Spacing and Optical Metrics Basically you click a button and wait a minute to get these results: One line shows the original and the other l…1 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
I heard back from Adobe, Camille mentions two things that could have caused the royalty drop I've encountered: 1. A while back we corrected a mistake in the naming of our fonts. This will have caused…8 -
Re: Handwriting ? On An Old German Wool Soft Felt Hat Sweatband
Yes, this is handwritten, not a font.4 -
Re: Basic rules for bearing
You'ed like probably watch that: How to Space a Font. FontLab Studio 5 tutorial with Thomas Phinney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbc_O7bNROs1 -
Re: What is the correct term for combining italic lowercase with upright roman caps?
I have learned something from this thread. Aside from not having heard of Fairbank myself until now, this inspired me to do some searching. I learned that as well as there being a Bembo Italic, both …1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
We should be clear about different kinds of metrics. Lots of things will change over the course of a design, as you say, but scaling everything relative to the UPM is best avoided if at all possible,…1 -
Re: Basic rules for bearing
BTW, in the case of an M with traditional stroke modulation, so a thinner stem on the left side and a thicker one on the right, I find that the sidebearings should not be symmetrical, but should be s…3 -
Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
There have been various little developments since I posted a progress report a couple of weeks ago, and one big one, namely that ygt now automatically generates values for the cvar table, per the sug…1
