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Re: Problems Adding New Weights to Large Font Family
The spec may have been vague, but nothing about the OpenType spec indicates that the number should be a multiple of 100. In fact, if that were the case, why not single digits? And furthermore, why d…1 -
Re: Different width of ellipse?
Recently I had this question myself. I tend to design my ellipsis to just… look good. I like it that way. But I read up on legacy reasons, and the SIL site has some interesting and confusing notes. T…4 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
The ‘brother’ relationship logic in Latin Plus is something that either Frode or I brought up with Underware late last year. I still don’t fully understand the point of it, but it just makes a sort …2 -
Re: Arcane font licensing questions
There is a lot of simple obfuscation you can do as a developer that is computationally cheap but deters simple file stealing – you’d have to watch the memory and all that. If you’re really paranoid, …2 -
Re: Multiple contextual alternates in sequence, based on proximity?
I remember @"John Hudson", I think?, once calling these ‘ligaturings’, as in, the separate parts of a ligature. Something like ligaturelings might make more sense. Ligatidbits. Ligaments.2
