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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 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
For extra fun, at all even vaguely normal sizes, Apple completely ignores the hinting info in the fonts.1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
Windows has like three or four different rendering modes, depending on your OS version and which API the app uses. These days the great majority of Windows apps are getting DirectWrite rendering (som…2 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
If metrics were protected IP, I would be curious to understand how the font-fauxing behavior of Acrobat (used when fonts are not embedded) was not legally problematic. Among other things.6 -
Re: PSA: A guide on how to draw a proper capital Eszett (ẞ)
Venetian oldstyle typefaces are inspired by Jenson’s early roman type of the 1470s. The key defining characteristic of Venetian oldstyle vs later Aldine is the e having a slanted crossbar. It may (bu…1
