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Re: Variation Selectors for Ligatures?
@"John Butler" Word still does fake small caps even when the font has real ones, with no provision for accessing the real ones that I know of.1 -
Re: Variation Selectors for Ligatures?
I should think this calls out for the “dlig” feature: discretionary ligatures. The most common ligature features not specific to any one writing system are: rlig: required ligatures. On by default, d…1 -
Re: Copyrighting Fonts: Source Code Software
The legal state of copyright for fonts as software in the USA is a bit complicated at the moment. I cover it a bit in this article from a couple years ago: https://www.commarts.com/columns/fonts-and-…3 -
Re: extraneous nodes question in Fontlab
You aren’t showing the off-curve points in FontLab, nor the outlines in FontLab, but I would guess you are using FontLab’s default cubic Bézier curves (PostScript style outlines) instead of quadratic…1 -
Re: World events influencing sales?
Adobe Fonts doesn’t commission fonts much, they mostly act as a distributor for others. They haven’t done much commissioning in over 20 years now. But AFAIK anybody who makes good quality fonts can g…3
