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Re: A clarification about kerning.
Round shapes are complicated because unless they are perfectly symmetrical you can't rely on numbers, whether measured from the horizontal extrema or at a standard height. So a letter like O nee…2 -
Re: Overlap in variable fonts
Yes, they're legitimate in TTF and in variable fonts. The only thing you need to watch out for is overlaps of overlaps, which can produce knockouts. So, for example, you can't use this cons…4 -
Re: Ornaments and Unicode
Since the only purpose of the parseable glyph names is Acrobat text reconstruction from GIDs in PDFs distilled from print streams, and presuming that the arrow glyph exists in the document because th…1 -
Re: Disabling ccmp by default.
One of the points that contacts at both Apple and HarfBuzz made is that rvrn is processed before strings are passed to USE for shaping. That may also be the case in the Microsoft implementation. So r…1 -
Re: Shape Of Cedilla
Convenience may also mean that the shape is generic and copied across any number of font families. At both Linotype and Monotype, one finds evidence of diacritics being produced in-house by drawing s…3
