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Re: Create metric-equivalent font
FWIW, I have often seen design with metrically compatible fonts. Century Gothic I see semi-regularly. Whether or not that played any part in the choice of that font by the end user is another questio…5 -
Re: A few questions about EB Garamond...
I am sorry to say they feel… quite “off” to me. I mean, I shouldn’t have been able to tell that was how you went at it — I could tell in that they seemed manipulated in that particular way. It is not…2 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Aha! I found another tool I was trying to remember. AFDKO has a tool called “StemHist” that does this. In fact, I wrote about it 10 years ago on this very forum: “AFDKO tells you how many stems have …3 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Ah, yes, that was at least one of the tools I had in mind. XOPQ is the stroke thickness of thick stems (in a western font, that would normally be vertical stems, which are measured in the X direction…1 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
IIRC, either Simon Cozens or Yanone has done some open source and probably command-line tool for this. Just busy with TypeCon at the moment or I would hunt it down....1
