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Re: Bold small caps: necessity, abomination, or side effect of variability?
My position has evolved, as I’m sure is true for many others as well. When I first started in type design, coming from a traditional book design background, I was in Group 1. Whitman was originally r…3 -
Re: Shape Of Cedilla
I think you’ll find a whole country of Icelanders who do not consider the ð to be a “niche” glyph. And I imagine many Eastern European type designers might make the “niche” glyph complaint about that…6 -
Re: Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
As John implied, the alternative discretionary ligatures will need to be made accessible through a combination of features — i.e., to get an alternative discretionary ligature, both {dlig} and {ss##}…2 -
Re: Fontlab 7 aalt-warning
{aalt} cannot take ligature substitutions. So the warning is appropriate, but can just be ignored. Or remove ss01 from the definition of {aalt}.1 -
Re: The design process
I don’t suppose anyone [else] still uses a light table. I have a portable somewhere around here.1
