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Re: automatic spacing correction for locl FRA. Good or bad?
I don’t think this is the sort of breakage you’re afraid of – if people type the regular space, and the font optimises it, then that’s a bonus. The underlying string is space guillemet, and it will p…4 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
The quotation dash is also the normal way, in Norwegian, of indicating quotes. They usually forego other typical quote marks, and tend to open with a dash. As for how they do that, well, that’s anoth…1 -
Re: Behavior of attached PDFs
You’re right. They added a ‘download’ attribute to the link, in fact. That part is very simple. However, if you copy-paste the address of the PDF it _also_ downloads, so I’m guessing their CDN has p…1 -
Re: Isn't the handle extended way too much here?
I used to think that, aside from easier access for TT hint instructions, it also benefits rendering when you have an on-curve point – the renderer ought to weight on-curve more heavily than off-curv…1 -
Re: I started work on a 19th century French Didot style font
I am fine with overlapping serifs in display type. They might cause trouble when people apply strokes, though – check for that in Illustrator and other such apps. It might not be what you’d want to s…2
