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Re: How does Adobe's automatic Optical kerning work?
How? It works by substituting a generic algorithm for font-specific kerning specified by the foundry, on the principle that software engineers know better than type drawers. That is why they put it a…2 -
Re: How short can ascenders go?
Advertisers Gothic and Hobo took it to the limit, 100 years ago.3 -
Re: Can tabular numbers be a default set?
These days, I generally make the default for text fonts tabular. But I see no reason to do so for display styles.4 -
Re: Apostrophe kerning by contextual lookup table
An alternative would be a second glyph, which would be substituted by the locl feature.4 -
Re: The Current State of Variable Fonts (End of 2018)
Price is certainly an issue. I originally conceived of Beaufort in the early ’90s as a MM typeface, before Adobe pulled the plug on that format. It had two axes—width and weight—and a separate Italic…1
