I assembled my tone ligatures out of components: I needed nineteen (not a bad deal to make 140 glyphs), but I now think I could have gotten away with fewer. The work was very quick (once I got around… (View Post)
This is what I do with both Junicode and Elstob. I even have a footnote in the documentation for Junicode explaining that hlig is for sequences that should ligature only in particular historical cont… (View Post)
Softmaker scooped up an old font of mine (Beowulf-1, released in the mid-90s before I knew anything about Libre licenses--it has only a copyright notice), renamed it as "British," and now s… (View Post)
Ygt now has a "merge mode," in which it adds its own hints to those already in a font. So if you use, say, ttfautohint and are largely satisfied with the result but want to hint a few glyph… (View Post)
There have been various little developments since I posted a progress report a couple of weeks ago, and one big one, namely that ygt now automatically generates values for the cvar table, per the sug… (View Post)