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Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
At last year’s Face/Interface conference, Mexican designer Manuel López Rocha spoke about designing for indigenous South American language communities. He touched on the importance of the saltillo. I…4 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
Also, on Miguel’s site that I linked there are some examples of real text. But you’ll have to transcribe them, as they are in images. Be sure to test between paired vowels-with-dieresis — e.g., nꞌanä…4 -
Re: Type-X, a Chrome extension to test your fonts on any website
For those like me who prefer to use Firefox, you can achieve some similar results using the Stylus extension to apply custom override CSS stylesheets for sites. Type-X seems to perform more general i…3 -
Re: locl AZE, TRK, and etc not working
“Switching to uppercase” is what John meant by “case mapping” above. This is not handled by the font (other than requiring a properly encoded İ glyph to be present).When you type “human” and set it t…4 -
Re: OpenType Features documentation
As John says, the average designer doesn’t generally need to be too concerned about the different lookup types. (Until you run into compiling errors or unintended behaviors perhaps. 😉)That said, any…1
