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Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
If you want to have that many optical sizes, and you feel a need to have labels, numeric labels make sense. In a current project, for masters we are using S(mall) M(edium) L(arge) XL (ExtraLarge), bu…2 -
Re: salt or aalt?
'aalt' is short for "all alternates." It is intended as a grab-bag or summation of all possible one-to-one substitutions. Everything in 'aalt' should already also be in …2 -
Re: New Prosper issue: Winding Directions
It’s not just you. TrueType outlines are harder to edit and work with. So even if TrueType is the primary or sole output format, most type designers still use PostScript outlines well into editing, a…2 -
Re: FontLab vs Glyphs
The biggest problem for a Windows version of Glyphs is that it was not developed on a cross-platform code base, so it would be a port. This means a lot more development work, and a lot more ongoing m…6 -
Re: Font QA Survey for PhD.
A bunch of the questions are binary, when the answer is often or usually going to be “both”: Do you test your fonts before you export them from Font SW or after? Both, but this is not an option. (Ass…2
