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Re: Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
I use a Xerox VersaLink C500 with true PostScript 3 and I find it excellent for testing.2 -
Re: Small Capitals
Petite capitals also have a 'secret' advantage for comprehensive fonts: several phonetic characters are uppercase letters with lowercase height. So, when you add petite caps, you also have about thir…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
Diacritics above ascender are very near to the diacritics above uppercases in traditional design. This small difference will not make letters unusually small. Even if the font has no support for lang…1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
Suggestion: design an n, create a h from it. Flip the h and create a sort of p. Draw a diacritic over the h and below the p. Ideally, the measurements of (ascender) + (diacritics) + (descender) shoul…3 -
Re: Adobe Type 1 ‘Expert Set’ ligature mappings?
The Expert set mapping from Adobe:2
