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Re: Type design hot takes
In time, Google’s empire will vanish, and all that remains will be a testament to its grandiose vanity. (As per Ozymandias). ** My hot take: Souvenir.4 -
Re: Alphabet 26
There are likely some unicase versions of typefaces, hiding in OpenType features. In my Scotch Modern Display, for instance, in which I put a unicase (Regular weight only) in “Titling Alternates”, a …1 -
Re: Space width
I sometimes put a slightly wider "space.case” for all-cap setting.2 -
Re: Type Design Technical Advances
What is different about digital fonts, that couldn’t be done before? Two things, at least, that I’ve explored. Certainly, alternate glyphs are nothing new, but they were previously manually set by ty…3 -
Re: Are there any OpenType features that are required to be user-modifiable?
<calt> is disabled by Adobe apps, when tracking exceeds certain values. Because of its origin as a connected script feature. This is really annoying for “pseudo random” effects, which one would…1
