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Re: Making a Devanagari rupee sign work in Indesign with Opentype
The interface is slightly different, but the languagesystem info is still present in FontLab 7, in the “prefix” section of the Features panel. Here: To me this seems like an improvement over a compl…1 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
I think there are several reasons for slow uptake on variable fonts: 1) Adobe Fonts web service (the former Typekit) not supporting them (the former . This is pretty big. 2) Figma not supporting them…5 -
Re: Is it legitimate for different font weights to have the same usWeightClass values?
I think it is more a question of whether YOU have time. Here is the Adobe documentation on the topic: http://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/WinWeights.html I remade a table that used to exist, whi…1 -
Re: Quality; or, What Makes a Font Great?
No question that almost every great typeface was made by somebody with a lot of training and/or practice. Although you can’t replace practice, education can be an immensely time-effective leg up. I l…1 -
Re: Coping with a big family
As a user, I kinda hate separate sub-families, in general. At least, I do if the separation is along an axis that is reasonably common, and/or I am going to use instances from multiple sub-families i…1
