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Re: Diacritic marks crashing into descenders and baseline
you can fix this with more generous vertical (hhea, typo, win) metrics. setting the line gap to 0 and relying on those metrics instead will get you more consistency across apps, google fonts has pret…2 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
no need for AI per se, I think underware foundry claimed to have done this (in a lecture on their HOI tour) a few years ago, though I'm not sure they truly meant any font. IIRC a question was p…0 -
Re: Kern On—Semi Automated Kerning Plugin for Glyphs
I am guessing / wondering if this is a case where kern on is too agnostic from seeing masses of dark and light rather than letters (which in many other cases is a benefit, as this helps it work acros…1 -
Re: Kern On—Semi Automated Kerning Plugin for Glyphs
I have noticed this as well. I don't know if I've had it for V-V specifically but it does happen with relatively common pairs. I find myself taking an auto kerned pair, and dragging the sli…1 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
italic offset can be computed as x_shift = -round(tan(italic_angle * pi / 180) * (x_height * 0.5)) gunnlaugur briem's website is offline I believe but the fontlab site has backed up his method h…1
