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Re: What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?
Slightly related: as you all know, 1000 is the recommended em value for PostScript (Type 1) fonts, and Microsoft's TrueType works optimally with 2048. Now as long as I remember – going back to Window…10 -
Re: Kerning Figures to Letters
Vasil, if your font allows combining the figures with existing letter kerning, as Craig suggests, the impact is extremely minimal (a few more glyphs in the initial lookup). Worst case scenario is a c…2 -
Re: Need to merge duplicate glyphs within a font into single unified glyphs
A fairly straightforward solution in Python; you can convert it to Perl, or just run this in Python and store the result elsewhere to process further.I downloaded this unifont.hex from GitHub but you…1 -
Re: Don't font vertical metrics ever affect leading in InDesign?
@Rosalie: of course you can change the "Automatic Leading" percentage! Its value is set in a Paragraph's Justification dialog. There you will see that default "120%", and you can …3 -
Re: Coding: Deactivating ligatures in the superscript feature
On why your code feature sups {<br>sub nine_nine by nine nine;<br>sub @figures by @figuresSuperscript;<br>} sups; does not work: always keep in mind a subtable is processed only onc…1