Font Technology

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• Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications

  380 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn November 2022
• Interpolation - Smooth to Sharp Transition

  337 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Vít Šmejkal November 2022
• Need help with hinting in Microsoft Visual TrueType

  283 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan November 2022
• Should fonts custom-made "for UI and UX" be optimized for web?

  394 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasily Draigo November 2022
• Web sites/e-readers that match optical size to pixel size automatically

  533 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney October 2022
• Fonttools "Level 4" variable font instancing opens up new retail option

  240 views 0 comments 7 points Started by Dave Crossland October 2022
• A hypothetical generative tool utilizing nested multiple masters.

  368 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Jeremy Dooley October 2022
• FontLab 7 - Different kerning classes in masters

  181 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Tagalog as a script descriptor?

  144 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by James Montalbano October 2022
• Dreaming of a new feature syntax

  1.2K views 35 comments 5 points Most recent by Simon Cozens October 2022
• Fontmake 3.4.0 error message

  177 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Kristian Möller October 2022
• COLRv1 and Rethinking Variations

  313 views 10 comments 2 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 2022
• macOS doesn't like the “Poster” as a last word in a family name?

  467 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk September 2022
• IPA ligature requirements

  364 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Antonis Tsolomitis September 2022
• Alternates for Selection in Photoshop

  137 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 2022
• Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment

  1K views 26 comments 1 point Most recent by Peter Constable September 2022
• Quick Look preview of font files in Monterey 12.4

  455 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 2022
• Fitting cubic Bézier curves

  2.4K views 35 comments 8 points Most recent by Raph Levien September 2022
• Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)

  180 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason September 2022
• Can you write nested lookups???

  133 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI August 2022
• Implementing some features in a way that swaps glyphs in both directions?

  603 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Twardoch August 2022
• Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine

  338 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson August 2022
• GSUB lookup processing: only ever one action?

  153 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Baker August 2022
• Metafont – ?

  824 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson August 2022
• one color font for all Browsers in 250kB

  467 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Grzegorz Luk (gluk) August 2022
• Weapon of choice

  3.1K views 69 comments 0 points Most recent by Rob Barba July 2022
• Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry

  134 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens July 2022
• Uniscribe / DirectWrite Web Browsers

  112 views 0 comments 0 points Started by RichardW July 2022
• Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec

  204 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson July 2022
• Proofing Kern On results - How do you review thousands of pairs?

  734 views 13 comments 1 point Most recent by Andrea T. July 2022