Thomas Phinney
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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)1 -
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 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
Python 2.x (which is what FontLab 7 uses) is already installed by default on macOS. However, I think Glyphs (as of Glyphs 3) and RoboFont require Python 3.x, not sure if they install it for you. On W… (View Post)2 -
Re: Historical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th century american typefaces
I do not recall now if I saw this, but it is typical of many Ihlenburg sketches I looked at in the Cary collection: * looks like India ink (over light pencil, right? did you see evidence of pencil ma… (View Post)1 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
For metrics, on Science Gothic (36 masters, 4 axes, 1200 glyphs per master) I originally went deep into linked metrics. I was pretty happy with that approach in principle. Some pretty long chains of … (View Post)4