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Re: When to use glyphname and when to use uniXXXX?
The Adobe naming scheme is based upon their Adobe Glyph List Specification (AGL) and the Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts (AGLFN), which can be reviewed here: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/agl-ag…5 -
Re: On counting Points
We should put that points to good use, like making a raffle and the loser pays a round of beers for everyone at ATypI Warsaw6 -
Re: Changes to Reactions
@"John Hudson" I’ll file a request with Vanilla.5 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
Wow, that logo... How do you say "dog's breakfast" in Russian? ;-Þ FWIW my experience with what's acceptable in Cyrillic depends almost entirely on whom you ask: if you ask Russian type des…5 -
Re: glyf (i.e. contour) analysis reports on libre fonts.
The font validator warnings were supposedly written around 2000, but newer Microsoft fonts like Calibri in fact do use overlapping components, so probably this warning can safely be ignored now.6 -
Re: Italics workflow
Don't slant by center of selection. You will get different relative horizontal shifts depending on the height of the glyph. For instance, a tall glyph will effectively be shifted more to the left tha…4 -
Re: Dropped small-caps parens
The issue I’ve run into when using GPOS for things like this is that some extra-font rendering elements end up inheriting the re-positioning. The classic example is the underlining in InDesign. Grant…5 -
Re: Unnamed Sans (?)
I like it. But the massive x-height combined with the flared terminals and gaping apertures on S, a and e make it feel like those weird fonts ITC did in the 70s and 80s rather than wood type.5 -
Re: Is type hinting for screens still relevant? Should new type designers learn it?
one thing I did not mention in my last post. Worse than no hinting, is bad autohinting. The samples shown here, I collected, all equate to a horror show of bad autohinting. fonts with quality like th…7 -
Re: Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
We offer demo fonts on Fontspring as well. These are stripped down versions, and are not universally available from all vendors. Some highlights from my research: 1. Roughly 4-7% of customers who dow…10
