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Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
That would be a reasonable question. But in Finnish, for instance, I do know that native readers prefer dieresis aligned with tittle (or so a Finnish magazine art director has told me). Whether it is…2 -
Re: Fontlab VI messing with my components when generating UFOs
When a glyph is a component of a component, vfb2ufo tends to remap it to the original component when converting. For example, if you have a periodcentered.uc which is a shifted component of periodcen…1 -
Re: Habsburg Spain type design?
In the 16th century the Spanish church patronized the French printer, Christoph Plantin, who in turn procured type from the French typecutters. According to a brief type history by Mike Parker (now a…5 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
Nick’s refinement of my idea of built-in overlapping, by just extending one side of the headline, not both, so as to minimize need the “normal” alternates, is a nice improvement. John’s idea is inter…2 -
Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
That might be useful at some stage of proofing, but it doesn’t give one the opportunity to discover pairs that are not currently kerned but may need to be (or may require sidebearings to be reevaluat…1
