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Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
What you seem to be describing is a model in which you can provide easy access to some variant uppercase letterforms by mapping them to the lowercase characters. I would say that is a very 1980s appr…2 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
Again, you are assuming that the font choice precedes the text creation. That only applies to one particular way of working with text. Fonts need to be able to handle e.g. use in style sheets, indepe…5 -
Re: metrics in InDesign different than in FontForge
First thing to check: in InDesign, is kerning set to Metrics or to Optical? If it were set to Optical, you would get autokerning that would override font spacing. [And no, I don't know whether t…2 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
The best way to approach this question is to ask yourself how you want a string of mixed case text to appear when it is set in your font. Too often, people making fonts seem to assume that the proces…4 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
You're still assuming that people are typing in the text in the case that suits your font. Presume, instead, that the text already exists, and your font is just part of the formatting applied to…6
