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Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
I'm primarily saying that 25 years ago, the 800 fonts bundled with CorelDraw were a substantial portion of generally available quality fonts, but the 800 fonts available at Google Fonts are a tiny fr…6 -
Re: OpenType to AAT conversion
Positioning is of course more complex. Substitutions are in the end totally simple decisions: you have a small list of items (glyphs in the font), like 200 or 700, and you make a chain of swaps. Even…1 -
Re: OpenType to AAT conversion
BTW, I think the Indic OT engine in HarfBuzz is still implemented using a state table (originally that part was done in ICU Layout, the now-extinct opensource OT engine), and “morx” is also state-tab…2 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
The cap ẞ would need more kerning pairs of it uses a top-left curve, e.g. in DROYẞIG. If it uses a corner there, probably no kerning is needed.1 -
Re: Hinting and OS X
There are two fundamental steps to screen type rendering: 1. Gridfitting. 2. Rasterization. In the first step, the glyph outline is modified (distorted). PostScript hints and TrueType instructions in…3
