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Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
Just to clarify: - there is a specific feature called “discretionary ligatures” (code: "dlig”) - when talking about OpenType feature code, “discretionary” is used to mean features that are off b…3 -
Re: Diacritic marks crashing into descenders and baseline
A with breve and acute is often the worst in Vietnamese. One recommendation for Latin fonts is to draw/test this one character prior to finalizing your vertical metrics, even if you do not otherwise …1 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
The web enables video and remote training courses. But it seems to have been the pandemic that drove both students and teachers to accept these en masse, changing how much type design training is del…1 -
Re: DSType selling part of its collection to Monotype
Hard for most observers to know how many have refused, because it is not the subject of press releases and publicity, and the folks involved rarely talk about it publicly. That said, at this point, m…4 -
Re: Books to learn how to design italics
https://gaultney.org/jvgtype/italics/ especially: https://gaultney.org/jvgtype/italics/designing-italics/2
