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Re: What is expected of style linking for variable fonts?
So our built-in automation will only style-link Bold to Regular, because that’s easily explained to the end-users of fonts, and is “safe”. But in FontLab and in TransType, you can make more “aggressi…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Four years later: this is a hilarious thread. Terms evolve as does type design. So in today's world, my take is the following. — cursive is a structural descriptor: when letters have a structure…5 -
Re: PixelFix
Looks to me like a specific DW-centric TTF VF hinting technique.4 -
Re: How to implement Bulgarian glyphs with grave that have no unicode (А̀ О̀ У̀ … а̀ о̀ у̀ …)?
The problem is with OS vendors. We effectively have 4 platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, macOS), and there are now fancy emoji input methods in all of them — but the keyboard layouts they ship for tra…4 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
FontLab just published a 10-minute video that explains how you can use TransType 4 to convert PostScript Type 1 fonts into modern OpenType fonts. The video is also helpful in that it explains the Typ…5
