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Re: Where is Arabic Italic originating from?
@yanone included a Ruq’aa style ‘Italic’ in his FF Amman: https://yanone.de/fonts/amman/5 -
Re: Scripts needed?
@"Hannes Famira" I don’t know if it counts as simple and straight forward, but my AnchorOverlayTool for RoboFont contains some helpers for accent letters. Especially the Recompose function:…1 -
Re: A better "version" of an existing typeface
I’d say it also depends on what your plans are for your redesigned typeface. If you have a design project you would like to use the original typeface for, but can’t because of its shortcomings, I’d s…4 -
Re: [OTVar] Changing tracking/HVAR
Thanks, Peter and Laurence. I did some more tests and it seems that indeed it is enough to store one point delta per contour plus the RSB phantom point delta for each glyph. The rest of the points fo…1 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
If the type designer has to determine color (color fonts), make the type user have to select weight and width (variable fonts). Just a shift of responsibility ;)2
