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Re: New Spirit Italic
Have you considered dropping the bottom serifs on the lowercase letters (f, h, k, m, n, r) as is more usual for cursive forms? I can see why you might include them on a design like this, though. I re…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Right, thanks for the clarification. Essentially, a reference to the separate PS font file was added to the existing Mac screen font format (NFNT), which already supported everything else, so that yo…1 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Powerpoint had a better but less popular competitor back in the day, Aldus Persuasion. It's too bad it didn't make it. When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it released a Windows version of Pe…6 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
This was because the font metrics were stored in the bitmap font file. The "printer font"—i.e., the PostScript part—contained the outlines, but not the metrics (spacing and kerning). But, y…1 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
I agree with @PabloImpallari on this in the sense that I don't use PUA. At the same time, I don't have much hope that, by doing so, app makers will be incentivized to add OT feature support…2
