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A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
With apologies for a long post, I’d like to invite anyone interested in TrueType hinting to take a look at an app I’ve been working on for the last few months. Called YGT (don’t ask), it’s a graphica…7 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Unfortunately, many libre fonts are picked up and distributed by commercial sites, which often drop the licensing info or label the fonts confusingly. I just now sampled one such site (font2s.com) n…3 -
Re: I made an italic font without permission
My understanding (not sure I remember it exactly) is that the presence of a Reserved Font Name would require that the name be changed if the font was subsetted for a PDF or a web page--subsetting bei…1 -
Re: The Serif: An attempt at deciphering its etymology
I'm going to offer my own off-the-wall etymology of serif (based on an entire half hour of research), but first I'll state my extreme dissatisfaction with the etymology most commonly offered (includi…4 -
Re: How to set a bit that FL7 won't set for me
Yes, alas, that's the error you get if you try to run the script under an old version of Python. What people mostly do to run fontTools and other font utilities is install the latest version of Pytho…1
