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Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
You need to ask WHY you want to make a distinction. For many needs, what Roel does, and what Adobe does, is useful: distinguish between the two different kinds of outlines. I do not find the approach…2 -
Re: Drawing masters
I used to do a Regular first. Now I often do a few glyphs in a regular weight to get the “feel” of it, and then switch to doing the lightest and the boldest (or something quite heavy*), and interpola…3 -
Re: A manifold of fonts
I played with Font Chameleon. It was fun, and its approach to blending worked better than some. I liked its approach to abstracting a design as a “font descriptor.” I don’t think many people ever got…1 -
Re: Have you ever had conflicts between double-coded glyphs?
Double-encoding a glyph only has a slight risk if an end user then makes a PDF from the font, via some route that does not preserve the original text encoding, but only uses the print stream. For exa…1 -
Re: Drawing masters
Like Michael, I used to draw just one master at a time, but I too am finding myself liking doing each glyph across masters as soon as possible. Of course, this depends in part on how many axes and ma…11
