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Re: HOI .ttf file messes up MacOS Ventura
I seem to recall someone saying recently (maybe it was @"Laurence Penney") that Ventura had an experimental, and broken, implementation of avar2, but that it had been even more recently fix…3 -
Re: Newly installed fonts don't appear in Pages' font menu on macOS
Pages only shows fonts that are deemed good enouth to support your current language. If your font does not (often the case with quick experiments), it’s only accessible from the ⌘T Font Panel.2 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
While we're on the subject, any clues on ḣ? I'm trying to work out what to do with this Noto issue.1 -
Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
Thinking about this some more: definition of measurement points for alignment zones and stem distances, could be defined using a fairly simple syntax if you have some kind of stem detection system. T…1 -
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
