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Re: Cross-script OpenType feature?
Shaping engines segment text strings based on Unicode script property, so the Latin and Greek glyph end up in separate glyph runs. This means that they're never processed together, and hence any…5 -
Re: Slashed zero with downstroke?
The modern slashed zero developed in an Anglo-American programming context in which confusability with Ø wasn't an issue. I do like that variant with NW–SE slash though. I say modern slashed zer…3 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
VN = Vietnam I presume because it uses the simpler, single-counter forms of a and g. I recall, BTW, that Sue Walker at the University of Reading, who is an expert in childhood literacy, has found no …2 -
Re: Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
You might also encounter people who need a particular open source license, and will pay for that. So, for example, we released Slabo under the OFL license, but if someone needs it under the Apache 2.…2 -
Re: When to use glyphname and when to use uniXXXX?
A point perhaps not realised by people familiarising themselves with OT variable fonts is that glyph names are also no longer required for CFF fonts if a CFF2 table and format 3 post table are used.2
