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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…3 -
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 applying an autohin…2 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
Funny how things go around. Back in the day, you'd ask a question about commercial software and some well-meaning but annoying Linux guys would jump in and hijack the thread with free software recomm…3 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
It sounds like you would like extra algorithmic tools which can help you in designing and engineering fonts. Perhaps it should just not be called "AI", because AI is bad. Let's call them a…1
