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Re: Checking legibility of glyph
I guessed it was an @ sign. But it certainly did not feel intuitive. Mind you, that was in isolation; agree with Ray that context is a big clue in normal use, when @ usually appears in places one exp…2 -
Re: Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
Yes, I was not meaning to cast any aspersions on non-design apps. Basically it is just that some apps that are savvy enough to inject their own added stuff into the PostScript stream or otherwise byp…2 -
Re: Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
I am on Mac as well. I just heard some issues that were mostly from Windows testing. More problems for an average user, though. Like: printing with variable fonts from a non-design app that just uses…1 -
Re: Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
The only reason the old fi and fl ligatures would show a notdef, is if they are not present in the font. BUT this code only functions if you do include glyphs for the hard-coded ligatures in your fo…2 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
Bitmapping the fonts in the PDF makes for a worse sample. At any decent resolution, it also means a bigger PDF. As a user, I find it really irritating. As a type designer, I won’t do it unless requir…1
