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Fontself as an alternative to ScanFont
I have only vaguely followed the development of Fontself, seeing it mainly as something for dabblers and novice type designers. It lets you make a font directly from Illustrator or Photoshop. I'm onl…6 -
Re: Can apostrophes swing both ways?
In the first example, I think it was done for reasons of formal unity (echoing the curve of the S). I think it's actually okay because, even though it curves "the wrong way", the general or…2 -
Re: Why are composite glyphs not used whenever possible in exported TTF files?
Composites are not allowed in CFF OpenType fonts (OT fonts with PostScript outlines). The .otf file extension usually indicates a CFF OT font, but not necessarily. Technically, an OT font with TrueTy…2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q1
Same here. For what it's worth, I would say that most of the time on discretionary features is designing, drawing, and spacing the glyphs needed to support the feature, not in writing the feature cod…3 -
Re: figuring out font technology
Simon: One thing you mention in your page about OpenType is that the UPM for TrueType must be a power of 2. It often is, but it doesn't have to be. It helped to do it that way with the slow processor…3
