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Re: MVAR fonts?
Adding a bunch of masters is always going to 'work fine' as a way to get a variable font to do what you want. But I'd say the filesize value proposition is pretty central to variable f…1 -
Re: MVAR fonts?
Going back to the original question, and how it relates to Amstelvar's ascender and descender axes, it's an interesting design question as to whether linespacing metrics should be variable …1 -
Re: Placing of diacritic in lc b with dot below, Dcedilla etc.
1. Optically centred. 2. Optically centred. 3. Despite character name, these are not usually cedilla form, but instead comma below. Optically centred. 4. Optically centred. 5. Either above the stem o…6 -
Re: Avoid "stroke"
@"Beau Williamson" I agree with almost everything you wrote there. The idea that concepts of stroke and notan are in opposition ignores all the ways in which designers deal with both on a d…3 -
Re: Optical compensations and writing tools
Are we going to repeat every single Typophile discussion on TypeDrawers? Formal writers regularly rotate the pen or brush to write Z with a thicker downstroke: that is part of the ductus of this lett…6
