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Re: Mapping parametric font tooling
Putting WASM in a font is an enabling technology for full-on programming. So it could enable you to do damn near anything you want. But it is an enabling technology rather than the thing itself. So,…1 -
Re: The middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up to today.
Your left-side diagonals in y and v could probably be just a few units heavier. It is OK for them to be a smidge heavier than the verticals; it will help them look visually the same weight.1 -
Re: Figure colon - Stylistic set or Contextual alternate
I would also be concerned about the potential for having a normal text colon end up near the special number colon. “As it says in Ex. 31:12–17: one should always yadda yadda.” I do not want those two…2 -
Re: Hellbox: live font proofing for Mac
I expect this is totally obvious to a significant chunk of the readers here, but probably equally NOT obvious at all for many.... “Hell” is German for “light,” and a “light box” is of course an old p…4 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Around 1998 or so, I used this to create bitmap “screen fonts” in a suitcase to go with the PostScript outlines fonts for Adobe’s Type 1 release of Myriad Condensed (non-MM, unimaster, 3 weights plus…1
