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Re: [OTVar] Axis Interaction and Literality
In the sense you’re talking about: Yes. Really? Are there users who expect to change the weight of a font and not have a line length change to some degree? I imagine that for those situations where u…3 -
Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?
Didn’t the representation of our modern concept of zero as numeral/figure basically start out as a contrastless symbol from the beginning? I would think the relevant question is when in history did c…3 -
Re: Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?
Seems to me the whole reason this is an issue is because the small-cap mechanism in the OpenType Layout framework was conceived to operate outside of any text-level casing mechanisms, and so the type…4 -
Re: Stylistic Set Consistency Between Styles
For reasons that John and Khaled have already expressed, when I used to work on features for Font Bureau fonts, I would handle Stylistic Sets within a family similarly. For example, Cyrus Highsmith i…5 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
Type design used to be an industrial design discipline.4
