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Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
I am of the belief—possibly mistaken?—that modern em dashes are much more often narrower than those cast in metal. I have analyzed quite a few modern digital fonts for em dash width, as it has previo…2 -
Re: PhD/ArtD — where to go?
Andreas is broadly correct. If you speak French, there is also Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy.3 -
Re: Diacritics
The fonts Adobe made earlier in the history of OpenType encode those things in PUA. Later Adobe fonts leave them unencoded because Adobe decided the negatives outweighed any theoretical advantages. B…3 -
Re: Origins of PT Serif
AFAIK, there is no terribly direct ancestor for either PT Serif or PT Sans. Certainly there are typefaces with similarities, but both were conceived as new typefaces, not direct reworkings of anythin…2 -
Re: In need of some help understanding Adobe Illustrator's Optical Kerning Feature.
Yes, Adobe’s optical kerning is size-specific. To simplify slightly, one could say it includes tracking. It is… impractical to simply build optical kerning into the font, because optical kerning affe…3
