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Re: InkTrapGenerator — Plugin for Glyphs
Yes, thorn is the term I remember.As late as the early 1990s, I met some type designers who had previously worked in phototype and who were unsure whether thorns were needed in digital type. [Arguabl…3 -
Re: Seeking Examples of Typeface Design Documention
The Now Read This book does this for the ClearType collection of typefaces made for Microsoft in the early 2000s.5 -
Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
@"Peter Constable" might be able to provide a more complete answer. This is my understanding from my memory of the meetings:The STAT table was designed around variation axis architecture, e…2 -
Re: The “ti” ligature
This is what I consider a stylistic ligature rather than a functional one. It doesn’t affect spacing, and is really just a mimicking of handwriting behaviour in which a crossbar naturally connects to…5 -
Re: Negative slnt values as per VF spec
CSS already distinguished italic and oblique.In context of OTvar, the slnt axis affects slant, and the ital axis affects type style; the latter mainly exists to provide an one-to-one mapping between …2
