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Re: How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?
The usefulness of particular test or specimen words or pseudo-words depends on what one is wanting to test or illustrate, which will vary at different stages of typeface development and, after, in pr…1 -
Re: How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?
I like this approach very much. Will be interested to see it adapted to words from languages other than English first, and then to Cyrillic and Greek. Your concept of ‘singular’ will be useful for Cy…2 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
While I agree that Latin-first is an outdated mode of font development, I think what that really means is that it is long past time to ditch the whole idea of a single set of vertical metrics for all…3 -
Re: My text face wish list
I don’t think there’s any harm in double mapping your angle brackets to the Dingbat codepoints, but avoid naming them in any way that could be parsed back to those codepoints.3 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
See above. You definitely need to ensure that nothing exceeds the Win metrics, to avoid clipping, but other than that the decisions are about how you want the font to behave in software that uses met…1
