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Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
The danger with trying to have a concise list with only many compounded kerning pairs is that is it equally contrived and can lead to distorted results in the opposite direction. Don’t misunderstand …7 -
Re: Warnings when generating OT-font ...
That Warning about the “Start of new pair positioning subtable, some pairs may never be accessed” is a classic indicator that you have overlapping kerning classes — i.e., some glyphs are members of m…1 -
Re: Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?
Here’s a real-world example of such a non-technical setting. (Okay, so it’s not an all-italic sidebar, but same basic idea, I think.) From TIME magazine, Nov. 2, 2015: Call me old-fashioned, but I ju…5 -
Re: Webpage to check language coverage of a given character set?
Hmm. Seems more exclusionary in other ways. For example, I find it curious that Underware’s tool thinks that German and some related languages are not supported if capital ẞ (U+1E9E) is not present. …2 -
Re: Oldstyle tabular figures
That seems a bit arbitrary. With any scheme of ascending and descending figures, there’s bound to be some combination that sits either “too low” or “too high.” It seems akin to concluding that it wou…3
