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Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
Exactly — These are equivalent to negative sidebearings. But not pair kerning, in the sense of specifically targeted adjustments.2 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
I have often contemplated this matter. In my opinion, one of the pinnacles of text production was the era of American book publishing in the 1940s and ’50s — publishers like Alfred A. Knopf, Random H…9 -
Re: Noob question about Chaining Contexts
In Adobe FDK syntax, it is as simple as this: feature ordn {<br> @th_nums = [zero four five six seven eight nine];<br> sub @th_nums t' h' by t_h.ordn;<br>} ordn;1 -
Re: Approaching Kerning Groups or Classes
Yes, ideally any splitting and filtering is handled as a pre-processing routine during compilation, leaving lumped classes intact in the master source for future design management and development.2 -
Re: Designing workflow
If hinting is the only issue that prompts the workarounds, then you might consider installing ttfautohint and just batch-hinting the first-generation TTF font files directly. (In which case, I should…2
