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Re: Questions on Fontforge internal scripting
I am not sure what you mean by “glyph’s length.” Some common width values one might want are: - the advance width - left and right sidebearings (white space) - the marking width, which is to say the …1 -
Re: Metafont – ?
The first Mac came out in January 1984. Pagemaker in 1985. Windows in November 1985 (although it would not reach great popularity until Windows 3.1 in the 90s). Fontographer in January 1986. So whil…1 -
Re: This is what Monotype is doing instead of anything helpful
Ah! I just licensed this recently to use on my grandparents’ grave markers. Lovely typeface, looking forward to coming up with future uses.1 -
Re: Learning to see Type
Overkerning is mostly a lack of experience, yes. It is a very common beginner (and sometimes even intermediate) problem. The simplest beginner mistake is just to kern too tightly in general, so that …2 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
Those are glyph names, which happen to look like code points. Both “uXXXX” and “uniXXXX” styles are standard strings for glyph names, from Adobe’s naming approaches as documented in the Adobe Glyph …1
