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Re: Pet peeve: empty .notdef character.
GID = Glyph ID = the numerical index of glyphs stored in the font’s glyf table (TTF) or CFF/CFF2 table. The count starts at zero, and both the TrueType and OpenType specifications require that the fi…5 -
Re: Kerning Figures to Letters
Hi Michael. That’s basically the approach I take, although I tend not to kern letters to numerals (because life is short, and the people who would care about such things are probably using software t…2 -
Re: Kerning Figures to Letters
OTL groups, including kerning classes, can be as big as you like, I think, and should not significantly affect processing speed. I just made some fonts with huge context groups, and they seem to beha…2 -
Re: Best practices for .null and .notdef?
NULL* should be zero-width with no contour *Name should be NULL not .null — .notdef should be the only glyph name in a font that begins with . The NULL glyph is not really needed in modern fonts, and…11 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
@"Scott-Martin Kosofsky" I’ll try to find out what the original intent of the encoding was, but my suspicion is that no one know or remembers. The character was inherited into Unicode from …2
