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Re: What is the proper name to each Weight? What's for CSS 550?
In your TyMS weights table: * the thing you call “em” is thousandths of an em. * Variable fonts do not use percentages as shown, but rather values synonymous with OpenType/CSS weightclass numbers. So…2 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
Shifting sidebearings in an asymmetric way would lead to fonts that would not center quite right in centered text, and would not relate as expected to the bounds of their text box. You might think th…4 -
Re: Where to look for type design/editing opportunities, in a general sense?
I think the problem has a big wrinkle that it is a moving target. That is, best practices for font engineering keep on changing. What you need to worry about depends on which problems are automated …2 -
Re: Where to look for type design/editing opportunities, in a general sense?
Yes, there are such jobs. But there are a lot more such jobs, the more technical you are alongside the drawing skills. Although programming is ideal, a highly technical non-programmer is still well-r…2 -
Re: What does the OpenType font "Open" mean?
What is funny is that of course it was originally still proprietary in the sense of privately controlled (not by an open consortium) by Microsoft and (as an arguably slightly junior partner) Adobe. O…6
