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Re: Maximum UPM for .otf fonts?
2048 is a round number in binary, like 1000 is in decimal. It presumably made things more efficient and faster for the 8 to 33mhz processors and 1 or 2MB of RAM that were typical at the time TrueType…2 -
Re: What do you think might be causing this problem?
Given that the character advance widths are doubled means this is probably not a tracking-related issue. Tracking adds the same amount between characters, not an amount proportional to the individual…2 -
Re: fonttools in Catalina
Never mind. It turns out the problem was trying to run the script from BBEdit. Pre-Catalina, I always used Textmate to run scripts. But the version of Textmate I was using wasn't 32-bit, so I figured…1 -
Re: Advice on 'j's
I would tend to go with the first one, even if it seems inconsistent with the /y. A tail on a /j that sticks out too much to the left will not only have some bad collisions, it will jump out at the b…8 -
Re: Book, Regular, Medium
If "extra bold" means "bolder than bold" then "extra light" means "lighter than light". I don't think most native English speakers would find it confusing, at …6
