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Re: Microsoft Visual TrueType Version 6.34 [December, 2020 release]
@"Hin-Tak Leung" > largest amount of fiction That's a nice, whitewashed way of referring to the fact that: 1) I was very forward with you (and all involved) that the renderer backend is …2 -
Re: External Monitor for type design
The question really comes down to what resolution you really want. A 4K screen at 27" is actually only around ~164 DPI. The same resolution at 24" is 180DPI. At 21", you just pop up to…4 -
Re: OTF Variable fonts
One concern to note is that Variable OTFs struggle with hinting overlapping contours. So if you need to preserve overlaps, generating a variable TTF is the better bet right now—at least if you intend…1 -
Re: Autohinting Variable Fonts
@"John Hudson" That's correct. You need to have a post table version 2 in order for it to work completely correctly. The script uses FontTools' getGlyphOrder() function, which will fall bac…2 -
Re: Autohinting Variable Fonts
@"Peter Baker" I wrote a little python library that will resolve the GID issue. You need to pass the old VTT source ttf file, and the new ttf file and it'll sort things out :).3
