David, OK, maybe I should have phrased it differently. Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 (1993) and Apple QuickDraw GX (1995) used Unicode. And the Apple engineers did design SFNT around 16-bit Unicode, which… (View Post)
Maria, The distinction between web apps and mobile / desktop apps is blurry. * The so-called web font formats such as WOFF2 are these days also used in desktop and mobile apps. Developers use framewo… (View Post)
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)