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Re: Superscript – missing forms
Superscript ¹²³-only is a legacy from MacRoman Postscript Type 1 encoding. Older fonts from that period will tend to have only those three. (Sometimes you find a superscript 4, because one drew it an…3 -
Re: Macedonian italic /gje localization
I am glad to have sparked conversation between native Cyrillic users. This becomes more and more valuable. :-) I note that the italic ghe/gje in SkolaSans are not straight “i” base forms, but retain …3 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
If anybody read my comments as saying that kerning is not a good idea and shouldn’t be done, then my point was misinterpreted. (And they must not know me very well.) I was echoing what I understood t…4 -
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