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Re: How many fonts are there?
John said, and Dan said, Interesting! I think this estimate is best done with median averages, not mean averages, so the tiny number of 'superfamilies' doesn't skew things. I think the…1 -
Re: Microsoft Font Validator lives!
It's not useful to have the tool fail things that are now common practice, and wait for a very slow moving spec to update. It's better to reduce the outcome to a warning/informative note th…3 -
Re: My First Font: SILE Sans
The overshoot is too much, or too regular, and there is some in D where it doesn't need to be The D and O have 'reversed contrast' - they are thinner in the sides than on the ends The …1 -
Re: Would you consider OTF "source" for e.g. an open source font project?
Right, you lost some trivial metadata. Generic metadata shared by code and fonts - comments and structure - aid us in making sense of the project, but are somewhat trivial too. The full git history i…1 -
Re: New version 1.4 of TTFAutohint released
I agree, and I think there is much room for improvement in the fully automatic results by applying simple heuristics based on the unicode value of a glyph.2
