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Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
The J-like 1 is very common in the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Netherlands and England, especially in the more upright styles. It is a frequent form in the copybooks of English writing masters, as…4 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
Thanks Florian. That's in the neighborhood of the J-like figures on this Venetian clock, pictured at the Wikipedia page for "1".2 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
The closest example in my collection is this hand-painted house number spotted in Amsterdam.1 -
Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
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A new Wakamai Fondue
Hi everybody, a new version of Wakamai Fondue was just released at the Fontstand conference in Berlin: https://wakamaifondue.com It's now using LibFont instead of Fontkit which allows me to dig …12 -
Re: Optical sizes for icon fonts for the web
It is hard to know how marketable optical sizes for icon fonts might be, when Google’s Material Symbols is libre (open source). I have in fact done production on such a font... but that would be Goog…3 -
Re: Hinting Variable Fonts
This turned out not to be quite true. Generating the CVTs and taking the deltas was easy; the problem is that the hint plan may differ across locations in the designspace. I think I've found a …3 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
The open-source version will not be developed further. It will stay open-source though. The successor will be a paid plugin.1 -
Re: How did you used to do interpolations without middle masters?
Glyphs App came out 15 years ago now, in 2011! I was using pre-release versions of FontLab 6. Before that I did the exact same trick Mark describes.1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
A little update: I tried to generate some IFT fonts+patches using the ift-encoder and it failed in two cases, BUT Garret Rieger works actively on it and wrote this: „I'm hoping to get it to a mo…3
