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Re: rvrn and rlig used together for switching shapes
Fortunately, in recent years, the communications between font makers and text engineers has improved a lot, thanks to platforms like Microsoft’s Github and opensource development like that done by Go…1 -
Re: rvrn and rlig used together for switching shapes
Quite often, the “intended purposes” have aged poorly, because they’ve been designed in-house, by engineers, with only a specific set of test fonts. On Windows, the intended purpose of a font family …3 -
Re: Sharp S can appear at start of word
Franz, are you Austrian or German? In Austria, the voiced S tends to be less voiced than in most Germany*. I think it’s also the case in Switzerland. But in central and northern Germany, S is very cl…4 -
Re: Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
The recommendation not to put NID 16 is it were to be identical with NID 1 was done in early days of OpenType and I think was built into AFDKO. All Adobe fonts were made this way. But I never saw any…1 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
> Once a consumer has paid good money for a font, the consumer should be able to use that font forever. They are able to use that font forever — in the apps and on the systems that the font suppor…13
