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Re: Infant type revisited
Yes and no, Ray. The kana letterforms are the same for sure, but progressive teaching of kanji (unavoidably) rather complicates that story. What makes it particularly interesting is that kana-only bo…5 -
Re: Looking for Designers of Chinese Type
Right. Here's the classic qz article on the scope of a Chinese font project: https://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/3 -
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 about fonts re…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-R, k…1
