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Re: How would you call the italic equivalent of serifs?
I think Nick is saying that if you can make italics without visiting Italy, then you can have entry strokes and exit strokes without using a pen.5 -
Re: Marking Copies of Fonts
David Gerard's Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain has a great primer on smart contracts.2 -
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: Separate language codes for different Englishes
Let’s talk about expectations. If you’re typesetting a text, would you expect the quotation marks to change direction when you change font? Typesetters and designers who care about these things can c…4 -
Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Just kerning. We have autospacers already. (See various comments above.) But since there’s clear demand I will give it a go when I come back from holiday. Autospacing will need regression, which is l…1
