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Re: Terms and Definitions - a Cheat Sheet - Help/Insight
I think of both tops and bottoms as vertices, and the tops alone are apices. But yeah, nadir works reasonably well (except for its negative connotations)1 -
Re: How Glyph Level PS Hints actually work?
Forcing a height to round up or just be larger isn’t really something you can do in PostScript hinting. You can totally do that with deltas in TrueType instructions a.k.a. hinting (though it is not g…1 -
Re: How Glyph Level PS Hints actually work?
Blue zones suppress overshoot at low ppem sizes. They may also ensure that differing amounts of overshoot are suppressed at the same time (this may be rasterizer-dependent, I imagine). That does inde…2 -
Re: Problem using fonts on Word (Windows)
Yes, as Mark says, this looks like "normal" Windows behavior—if your italics are style-linked to their uprights, and your bold is style-linked to your regular. That would be a pretty normal…2 -
Re: macOS doesn't like the “Poster” as a last word in a family name?
Oops, I forgot to say! “Poster” has historically been used as a style name (e.g. “Bodoni Poster”). I think it is fairly likely that macOS has some interestingly “helpful” heuristics that override the…1
