Font Technology

Discussion List

• Should fonts custom-made "for UI and UX" be optimized for web?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1.4K views 35 comments 5 points Most recent by Simon Cozens October 2022
• Fontmake 3.4.0 error message

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

  343 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?

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

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

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

  1.2K views 26 comments 1 point Most recent by Peter Constable September 2022
• Quick Look preview of font files in Monterey 12.4

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

  2.7K views 35 comments 8 points Most recent by Raph Levien September 2022
• Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)

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

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

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

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

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

  1K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson August 2022
• Weapon of choice

  3.2K views 69 comments 0 points Most recent by Rob Barba July 2022
• Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry

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

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

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

  809 views 13 comments 1 point Most recent by Andrea T. July 2022
• Double shaping in USE targets

  61 views 0 comments 0 points Started by RichardW July 2022
• Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019

  346 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by realAmrIsmail June 2022
• Superscript activation in Adobe Illustrator

  219 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic June 2022
• OTF Variable fonts

  1.6K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher June 2022