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Re: Book, Regular, Medium
The term Book became useful in recent times when applied to new revivals of metal types whose initial digital versions had been notably too light because based on technical drawings or inappropriate …2 -
Re: The selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
And some wacky script reform proposals to better fit Indian writing systems to the imported technologies. Just a few examples from the chapter ‘Notes on the work of the script reformers’ in Naik'…1 -
Re: What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?
I am using FL7 a lot for production work—the variations tools are excellent, the kerning and anchor tools are better than FLS5—but I'm still not comfortable creating glyphs in it. I work so quic…3 -
Re: What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?
@""Hrant H. Papazian" It is implemented in the FL7 font info. If you input the italic slant angle, it will automatically fill the nearest run over rise integer ratio. If you input the …5 -
Re: What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?
With any power-of-2 value. The performance benefit is pretty minimal these days, and Microsoft have allowed/requested us to use non-power-of-2 UPM values on a couple of projects in the past few years…2
