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Re: Fraction Slash
Nut fractions are far less common in non-scientific typographic settings these days. But I suspect they were a bit more common a century ago, in the metal era.3 -
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: Fraction Slash
Matthew Carter is fond of nut fractions in his fonts. There was a version of ITC Galliard that Carter & Cone distributed back in the day that had an expert set for setting multi-digit nut fractio…3 -
Re: calt and liga tracking fail
Nick, there are now the {rclt} Required Contextual Alternates and {rlig} Required Ligatures feature tags. One would think that software would respect the “required” aspect of these specific tags and …2 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
John — That is an interesting observation, which I’d never made before. But I just went and checked a handful of my own faces in progress and noted that I too seem to be intuitively falling in a simi…1
