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Re: Hinting and OS X
Yes, Adobe apps use the hinting built into fonts. Adobe has their own rasterizers, used by most of their apps. CoolType is the most common of the Adobe rasterizers, and is used by the major desktop a…1 -
Re: Fontocalypse Now?
I certainly feel that dafont has mostly crap. Yet I certainly did not mean to give a negative impression of free and libre fonts overall. One of the big changes I tried to highlight was Google bringi…1 -
Fontocalypse Now?
So, I wrote an article about some changes in the font biz over the past decade or more: so. https://www.commarts.com/columns/fontocalypse-now (the print article has a sidebar, which is why there is t…10 -
Re: What is best practise in variable font development?
Further to what Georg mentions, one trick to reducing kinks and interpolation problems in variable fonts is to avoid excess points, and especially avoid having on-curve points that are not at extrema.2 -
Re: Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
It really isn’t as scary as it sounds! Assuming 'dlig' comes before 'ss01' you would do: <p>feature dlig {</p><p><br> sub E D by E_D;<br></p>&l…4
