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Re: Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com
One of my talk proposals for TypeCon was a fresh font detective talk! But with 20 min there would not be much time.1 -
Re: Code points for alternate glyphs
Two different glyphs can’t share the same code point. One is encoded, and the other is either unencoded, or differently encoded. General practice these days is to not encode alternates. Speaking as t…11 -
Re: Phinney’s TheFontDetective.com
I definitely need to find a chance to use that.2 -
Re: Learning to see Type
Overkerning is mostly a lack of experience, yes. It is a very common beginner (and sometimes even intermediate) problem. The simplest beginner mistake is just to kern too tightly in general, so that …2 -
Re: Use of Postscript Private Dictionary
I have always provided numbers to these in fonts based on PostScript outlines (Type 1 and OpenType CFF a.k.a. OTF). Blue zones are what is more generically referred to as overshoot zones. FamilyBlues…1
