BTW. Discovered in investigating a weird KO outcome with Tim that KO does not play well with quadratic outlines, so some distances were being incorrectly calculated. So if using KO on projects involv… (View Post)
I used DTL KernMaster on a project a long time ago. It did a pretty good job, but it is less flexible than KO: you need to define a pair list, and there is no iterative input, only some values that y… (View Post)
If it is something you found on Google Fonts, then it is released under the Open Font License (or very occasionally the Apache 2.0 license), so you didn’t make the italic without permission: permissi… (View Post)
Could be? Luxury items are the opposite of necessity goods, which people buy regardless of their income level or wealth. I think Bruno Maag once said that fonts are luxury products although I cannot… (View Post)
Yes. Have a look at the feature file specification for details, in particular section 2.g.ii: http://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html#2.g.ii (View Post)
Aren't you always manually checking to see if your kerning is good? Whether that kerning is automated or not. I would assume that it's the stage before that, the bulk of the kerning work, that is spe… (View Post)
Here's one such available location on the web that is pretty easy to understand and apply. https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/features-part-2-contextual-substitutions Mike (View Post)
One of the reasons I gave up on my experiments with automated kerning is the problem of verification. Unless you trust the algorithm implicitly, you end up having to verify all the pairs that it gene… (View Post)
Results out of KernOn are only as good as the inputs you give it. I've been using the TypeFacts kerning test (https://typefacts.com/artikel/kerningtest) to help define models (which provides a pretty… (View Post)