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Re: Renwick Display - A Humanist Sans
The general rule for spacing is to fix the problem cases with kerning but make the common cases work with spacing as much as possible. So yes, some things would overlap. But at least the TYPICAL spac…1 -
Re: cmap table
What Karsten said. Presumably, the font spec involves one or more supra-BMP characters. That is, characters whose codepoints lie outside the Basic Multilingual Plane a.k.a. beyond the double-byte (~ …1 -
Re: Should a SIL Font Derivate Be Released?
The thing that this part of the discussion is tripping over, is “what is the complete work?” The open source license in this case was related to software that was part of the “Windows 7 USB/DVD Downl…2 -
Re: Rules while designing Italics
Both terms have meaning, and they are not the same thing. An “A” can potentially be oversloped without yet having overhang (depending on the italic angle of the font and the angles in the upright A).…5 -
Re: Goodbye WordPad, whither Type 1?
It isn’t so much about “Windows” but specific APIs. The antique GDI API is about as old as Windows. It was later updated to natively support Type 1, but every Windows text API introduced since then d…2
