Thomas Phinney
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Re: "Cursive" italic forms
There may well have been other typewriter script fonts before IBM’s Script 12 Pitch, but IBM’s is older than one might think. I think it was either introduced with the Selectric in July 1961, or quit… (View Post)2 -
Re: Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?
Yes, as one of the people involved in creating those character sets, I can attest it is because they were in the MacRoman character set. During the OpenType conversion of 2000–2002, Adobe ch… (View Post)2 -
Re: Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?
Well, these characters are part of the basic MacRoman character set, which can be typed directly even on a standard US English keyboard. Whether that matters to you or your expected users is another … (View Post)2 -
Re: How to make last written glyph to be on top ? [FontLab7]
So, the problem is that your font is not black and white. It is ink and ... clear. So regardless of layer/glyph z-axis order, the ink is going to blot out the clear stuff, because it doesn’t matter i… (View Post)2 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
The ONLY reason to learn Python 2 is, if you are wanting to script in FontLab 7 today. (View Post)2