Please suggest typefaces for my talk on contextual alternates

Russell McGorman

I don't think anyone has mentioned Chartwell yet.

Matt Heximer

Also, to go along with Chartwell, Travis Kochel's Flagsmith is fun (and clever).

Andreas Larsen

In monoid (monospaced coding font) I'm using calt for ligatures because I wanted the font to be "true" monospace (every character has the same width) and because calt is better supported by code editors. 
I'm also using calt for class based contextual positioning in an effort to iron out some inevitable spacing errors in a monospaced font.

https://medium.com/@larsenwork/class-based-contextual-positioning-in-monospaced-fonts-cb6b8b9ffe6f
https://medium.com/@larsenwork/ligatures-coding-fonts-5375ab47ef8e

Nick Shinn

“contextual positioning” = kerning?

Craig Eliason

It's a bit of a different animal than regular kerning, if the monospace advance width is always preserved, I suppose.

Andreas Larsen

@Craig Eliason  indeed - I couldn't use "normal" kerning because it had to remain mono spaced

attar

Afaict (I have not tried such a thing), you can use a contextual positioning lookup in the `kern` feature.

Russell McGorman

This isn't a particularity sexy use of OT features, but it's kind of fun, just a little bit dramatic and a somewhat perplexing use of discretionary ligatures: 
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ourhousegraphics/after-5/

elena Veguillas

Take a look to Toshi Omagari’s Marco.