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Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
Victor Gaultney’s thesis is great! Regarding slant and offset.... Basically, if you slant letters for a western italic angle, they end up sticking out to the right and getting away from the left boun…1 -
Re: How to access alternates through CSS
> I assume Serbian forms are packed as stylistic alternates and accessed through the OT feature. They are generally handled via the OT 'locl' feature (not stylistic alternates, or at lea…1 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
> ascenders and descenders are longer for more quickly identifiable "word shapes" This is descended from a popular myth about reading, which is mostly (though not entirely) untrue, as fa…2 -
Re: PS hinting and overshoot
I am going to simplify slightly: .otf is generally OpenType CFF .ttf is always TrueType The dividing line between OpenType with TrueType outlines and old TrueType is mostly imaginary, unless one happ…2 -
Re: Sans
For the most part, you need to decide how much contrast (stroke variation) the typeface has. The newest /g looks out of place with the rest of the font, I think. It is not BAD, it just doesn’t fit th…1
