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Re: Small caps as a variable font axis in Glyphs?
Nick raises what's already becoming an issue with regard to axis interaction: how will a font behave — and, for that matter, how should a variable font UI behave — if two separate axes affect gl…1 -
Re: Small caps as a variable font axis in Glyphs?
Sure, in the same way that x-height, ascender height and descender depth will likely end up getting registered, and all of these have fairly obvious scale values related to 1000th of em, so will be r…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
There is no 'non-Latin' market, outside of a smallish number of software corporations with major localisation programmes and the branding needs of multinational corporations seeking consist…2 -
Re: Designing workflow
I recall Mark Foley telling me that Dalton Maag maintains production VFB sources with TTF (quadratic) outlines in one layer and CFF (cubic) outlines in the other. That seems to me good practice in te…3 -
Re: Ignoring mark to mark anchors for a specific base glyph
Right, so the secondary mark-to-base lookup, after the mkmk, only contains baseA; all the other bases are already processed in an earlier mark-to-base lookup. Mark positioning is iterative, so you ca…1
