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Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
I wonder what the user expectations are for a typeface with a compressed/ultracondensed width are? is it just to fit in with a hypothetical full family of widths, e.g. SF compressed and regular width…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
This are the ones I typically use as reference: Ǻ ķ - for Basic Latin ẲṌ Ṏ Ṑ Ṓ Ṥ Ṧ ỵ - for Latin Extended2 -
Re: New Spirit Italic
I like it, especially 1. Also nice to see someone of your stature post for feedback here on typedrawers. Below is some thoughts on the regular-italic of V1 in no particular order. Maybe the backwards…1 -
Re: A font tester made by ChatGPT
some experiences with GPT3.5 and 4: a few months ago I wrote a drawbot script that goes through the git history of a font and does a timelapse animation of a specified glyph in a .glyphspackage file …5 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Similar things happened to Craw Modern too... but the Q tail failed The /C grow a serif at the bottom the /G lost the straight short stem The /O contrast got diagonal The /S got diagonal spurs The /g…1 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
It definitely should not be taken as an excuse: it is a bizarre situation in which a bad piece of software becomes incredibly successful, such that it is never replaced by something better, but conti…1 -
A font tester made by ChatGPT
I know some of you have interested in ChatGPT. I have been testing what I can do with it. Ask it to write Python scripts for Glyphs App and so on. During the experiments, I made a Font Tester. It was…2 -
Re: Font weights not being recognized by Mac OS Ventura
I think I found a possible reason. The Regular and the Medium were both named (Regular). It did not affect the use of the fonts in Mac OS Monterey but it did cause problems in Mac OS Ventura. I used …1 -
Re: Font weights not being recognized by Mac OS Ventura
What I mean is: when I go to install (JohnDoe Medium) in Fontbook it does not seem to recognize the difference between the different weights. When I try to install the regular, bold, semibold it seem…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
A couple further thoughts on this topic. I’d say “design for screens” used to be approached completely differently because of the hardware. Screens used to be relatively predictable. Those tasked wit…11
