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Re: which is a better format to copy paste or import into font program?
This thread, on b-spline editing in Inkscape, has some useful info about pasting into FontForge. Read to near the bottom of the thread for some useful pointers from @"ivan louette" about th…1 -
Re: which is a better format to copy paste or import into font program?
I find the cubic bezier splines of the major font editors quite clunky to draw with. The spiros of FontForge, and the similar curvature tool of Illustrator, are better, and Inkscape's b-splines are a…2 -
Re: Using B-splines to draw italics
I spent much of the morning playing with Inkscape because of this post, and I agree that B-splines are amazing, and not only for italics. I'm not sure they're better than spiros, but both aim to solv…2 -
Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
I think I used to do this. Quite right: it made no sense at all. :/1 -
Re: Æthelflæd
The pedant medievalist in me has got to pipe up to say: (1) @"André G. Isaak" is right: textura is centuries in the future at the time of Æthelflæd: it would be rather like using Avenir to …3
