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Re: How to assess what optical size(s) a given type style is intended for?
Dave — Unfortunately, I have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon and won’t be available for your call with DB. Say hello for me. ;-) I would be very interested in a recording after, as I’m sur…2 -
Re: Type Engineering: How to get into it?
I have nowhere near the experience that John and Simon have on the deep engineering side, as I straddle more of the design/engineering boundary (not unlike John, but definitely without his great brea…1 -
Re: What is the preferred method of keeping kerning data in UFO format ?
IMO, it is preferable (and certainly more common) to maintain kerning data in kerning.plist. Kerning data will often vary between styles/weights of a family. But features are often shared and common …2 -
Re: Florin vs Latin small letter F with Hook U+0192
There are several African languages that use ƒ fhook, not just Ewe. It may not be realistic to try to catch all with {locl} substitutions (especially since texts may not be reliably language-tagged).…3 -
Re: When in the type design process do you start drawing different weights and styles?
Being somewhat of a traditionalist in temperament, I tend to work out full U&lc alphabet plus basic punctuation and figures in the Regular before working on auxiliary weights. Since I am mostly t…3
