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Re: Separate language codes for different Englishes
This whole discussion reminds me of my favourite bit of OpenType code, sub period space space by period space If you think fonts should be opinionated about linguistic conventions, you should probabl…3 -
Re: Units per em
I've spoken to the folks at O'Reilly and they are not planning on doing a new edition of Fonts and Encodings. The cost involved in getting the book through production (obviously a book abou…2 -
Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Thanks for that - it was useful feedback. I've changed the training process so that it also trains against a mirrored dataset. i.e. each time it learns about a set (right-side-of-L, left-side-of…1 -
Re: What was the very first typeface described as “feminine”?
If you think hiragana counts (and it was literally called "women's hand" 女手) then we've got it back to the 10th century.3 -
I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
TLDR: I basically have autokerning working. I consider the concept proven. It needs a little bit more polishing, but I don't have time right now. Will come back to it later. Ever since watching …26
