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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 the v…26 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
“Qazaqstan” is tremendously satisfying to type on a qwerty keyboard.10 -
Re: Access to localized forms.
There are several ways. At the most basic, InDesign has a "Glyphs" palette that lists everything in the font, and you just pick the glyph you want; the next level up is to use a custom INX …1 -
Re: Anybody else want to commission a open source Wordpress type tester?
Just use hb-view. You can even get it to render them as SVG, and embed that in your DOM for nice live updating.1
