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Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
The printer font contained the outlines, and the spacing, but neither kerning nor menu name and style linking information. All that was in the (Mac) suitcase file which also contained the bitmaps or …2 -
Re: Where do I put the extra characters?
Typically, in modern fonts, these are left unencoded. You do not assign Unicode values to them at all. If you feel you must encode them for some reason, give them Private Use Area (PUA) codepoints. h…5 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
One thing I have a lot of experience with in my forensic work, is trying to demonstrate whether a given text is set in a known font, or to show the differences between two fonts. I avoid the approac…3 -
Re: Fontlab export OTF problems (missing letters and styles)
One plausible explanation of your "s" problem is that you have accidentally duplicated the entire contour, over top of itself—but as a separate element, in which case remove overlap wouldn’…1 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
Personally, I make a distinction between “quality fonts” and “comparable to commercial alternatives such as Minion.” There are a lot of fonts that I think are “quality fonts” that are not at the same…1
