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Re: The design process
Drawing and working with Bézier paths are not the same thing. They are two different skills. Working with Bézier paths is more like sculpting. It takes just as much practice to get good at it as it d…13 -
Re: Anchor positioning habits
I usually put anchors at the x-height/cap-height, but you're right, they could be anywhere that is convenient as long as you are aware of it. I don't position them differently for overshoot…3 -
Re: Sort multiple-mapping sequentially in FontLab
An easy way to make custom encodings is to rearrange glyphs in the Index view and then save as a custom encoding (Glyph > Glyph Names > Save Encoding). After you save it, you can open it and ch…1 -
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
