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… (View Post)
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 … (View Post)
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… (View Post)
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… (View Post)
> 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… (View Post)