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Re: History of ball terminals in serif typefaces
Conceptually, contrast the uniformity of serifed type detail that exists in the oldstyle—informed by the principle of constraint exercised by a broad nib pen held at a consistent angle; with the vari…1 -
Absence of Standard Stem Hints causes fuzzy inline (InDesign, Mac Screen, otf format)
Left: no Standard Stem Hints. Right Standard Stem Hints. As this is for a layered typeface, I thought it made sense to remove all hinting (as many of the layer fonts have different dimensions). Howev…1 -
Re: Are Bézier with only one handle bad ?
Morissey’s lyric may also be interpreted as a lament for the passing of the vinyl record, which he associates with the music of his youth—it was written around the time CD sales surpassed vinyl. A ru…4 -
Re: While working on a typeface, how do you handle all those candidates for the same glyph?
I use the accented character spots at first, when working in FontLab. That way I can easily type them into the metrics window. But if I am going to make a font and test it in a layout application, th…1 -
Re: Avoiding hyphenation of digraphs through opentype features
The method I suggested does work in InDesign. The trick is to give both the default left letter glyph and the default hyphen extra wide right sidebearings. I’m not sure how robust this method is in o…2
