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Re: [OTVar] Suggestion to record in the font whether an axis affects metrics or not
I'm not convinced that this is even that useful from a rendering software perspective. If the font changes, you have to update the display, and you will be doing some substantial work to erase the ol…2 -
Re: Modification Briefs - Best practices
Microtypography was also a term that Hermann Zapf used in the hz-program; he used it to refer to a collection of type manipulation techniques (optical margin compensation, expanding or condensing let…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
It's great that we're seeing support in font editors already, which is imperative for getting variable fonts out there, but it is indeed a huge task to make this happen down at the user level. Take …1 -
Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
I'm now a little confused about what we're testing here. @PabloImpallari, it looks like you have a script that finds max consecutive kerning pairs from an English dictionary given a generic list of k…1 -
Re: A FontLab 6 intervention
Having only ever used Glyphs and not the old Fontlab, I've found FLVI really intriguing. My gut feeling is that if I could only work out how to get stuff done in it, it would help me to make much bet…3
