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Re: exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design
You could use the orange masters as a way to generate the green masters (as you describe), but the only reason to do that would be if you plan to manually adjust/correct the green masters afterwards.…2 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
Oh! Of course, my apologies. Sure, that is true! Or at least it was in metal type, and in those typefaces descended from metal (including their phototype descendants). However, it says little about …1 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
Yes, I think that. As you say, Vietnamese support requires stacked diacritics, which can be a problem if cap heights are generous on the em. At the same time that Vietnamese support has become less o…2 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
@"John Savard" That is an interesting mixture of true and false. You are mostly right about the baseline, although even THAT was only standardized in the late 19th century along with the si…4 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
The most common ranges for: * cap height: 57–75% of the em, typical 62–72% * x-height: 40-52% of the em, typical 44-47% Some very common fonts are actually among the relative outliers, relative to th…3
