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Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
You know that Fontbakery has a dependency on Python, and also on a bunch of Python modules, don't you? On the other hand... ...Fontspector on Windows is provided as a single binary download wit…3 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
"Many users still rely on the Python release" is a good reason for keeping Fontbakery around, not for calling something else Fontbakery instead.3 -
Re: How does Unicode work?
While anyone can submit a proposal to Unicode for encoding an unencoded script, the Script Encoding Initiative has a lot of expertise in developing proposals; their web site is a good place to start …1 -
Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
For me, the distinction is a negative one - I am a font engineer because I do everything apart from the outlines. People who draw curves are type designers (who may or may not do their own productio…2 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
In fontquant, XOPQ is measured using the H character; that's what Berlow's schema requires, I think. Frank's answer suggests to me that there might be a clever way to do things by appl…2
