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Re: What is best practise in variable font development?
Matthew doesn't draw letterforms by hand. When I last worked with him, he was still preferring to use Fontographer, because it's what he's used to: that's how long he has been making his own digital …6 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
I would distinguish two forms of similar appearance, only one of which I would call 'two stroke'. A lot of the forms that Gerry shows, are based on the first ductus, which is continuous (cursive): Bo…4 -
Re: principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)
Gerry Leonidas encouraged the ClearType Collection designers to make the rounded beta and the cursive theta the default forms for the italic styles in those families. This works fairly well (presumin…4 -
Re: Georgian Italic
I'd like to see the concept of italic unpicked, and reimplemented based on a conceptual rather than a stylistic understanding (which might in turn result in calling it something other than italic). T…6 -
Re: Discretionary Ligatures: more than only one lookup
Note that linebreaking behaviour is character-based, not glyph based, so simply making a combination of letters form a ligature when they are adjacent won't mean that they won't end up getting split …1
