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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 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
So, first, Craig is right. Cap height is not usually the primary determinant of how large a font looks, to most eyes. This is why Apple rescaled Zapfino in between two OS releases, 2.5x as big as it …4 -
Re: Using mutiple editors when working on a font family
My current workflows on some projects for Google Fonts involve FontLab 8 > UFO > FontMake > TTF. I can get predictable and good results. But that is very different from moving files back and…1 -
Re: Fontbakery feedback
Oh great, NOW I am able to update the desktop command-line version. Too late, mate! You lost! :tongue:1
