Font Technology

Discussion List

• On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)

  237 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson 3:37PM
• COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations

  229 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 26
• macOS doesn't like the “Poster” as a last word in a family name?

  410 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk September 25
• IPA ligature requirements

  269 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Antonis Tsolomitis September 21
• Alternates for Selection in Photoshop

  113 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 19
• Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment

  732 views 26 comments 1 point Most recent by Peter Constable September 16
• Quick Look preview of font files in Monterey 12.4

  384 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 11
• Fitting cubic Bézier curves

  2.1K views 35 comments 7 points Most recent by Raph Levien September 10
• Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)

  144 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason September 1
• Can you write nested lookups???

  120 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI August 24
• Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?

  561 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Twardoch August 21
• Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine

  300 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson August 19
• GSUB lookup processing: only ever one action?

  136 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Baker August 18
• Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications

  192 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 15
• Metafont – ?

  639 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson August 10
• one color font for all Browsers in 250kB

  430 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Grzegorz Luk (gluk) August 7
• Artificial Intelligence generated letters

  1.1K views 19 comments 6 points Most recent by Eris Alar August 3
• Weapon of choice

  3K views 69 comments 0 points Most recent by Rob Barba July 15
• Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry

  120 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens July 14
• Uniscribe / DirectWrite Web Browsers

  84 views 0 comments 0 points Started by RichardW July 8
• Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec

  178 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson July 8
• Proofing Kern On results - How do you review thousands of pairs?

  645 views 13 comments 1 point Most recent by Andrea T. July 4
• Double shaping in USE targets

  53 views 0 comments 0 points Started by RichardW July 3
• Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019

  176 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by realAmrIsmail June 30
• Superscript activation in Adobe Illustrator

  122 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic June 23
• OTF Variable fonts

  1.1K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher June 13
• A hypothetical generative tool utilizing nested multiple masters.

  240 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland June 12
• FontLab 7 what happened to Smart Shape ?

  228 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasily Draigo June 7
• Is Multiple Substitution decomposing a lig. glyph?, when and why you have to do it

  113 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI June 1
• FONTLAB GLYPH RECOGNITION

  280 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson May 29