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Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
> Do other font editors nowadays use slanted sidebearings like Glyphs has always done I thought that was pioneered by FontLab VI, and not in Glyphs until after version 2. Am I mistaken?1 -
Re: Italic letterforms (sans serif)...
Victor Gaultney’s thesis is great! Regarding slant and offset.... Basically, if you slant letters for a western italic angle, they end up sticking out to the right and getting away from the left boun…1 -
Re: How to access alternates through CSS
> I assume Serbian forms are packed as stylistic alternates and accessed through the OT feature. They are generally handled via the OT 'locl' feature (not stylistic alternates, or at least not onl…1 -
Re: Why so many coding typefaces with large x-height?
> ascenders and descenders are longer for more quickly identifiable "word shapes" This is descended from a popular myth about reading, which is mostly (though not entirely) untrue, as fa…2 -
Re: PS hinting and overshoot
I am going to simplify slightly: .otf is generally OpenType CFF .ttf is always TrueType The dividing line between OpenType with TrueType outlines and old TrueType is mostly imaginary, unless one happ…2
