John Hudson

  • Re: Mapping a Unicode range to another

    [My IUC39 presentation Beyond Shaping provides an overview of the steps involved in text processing and display with OpenType, which might be helpful in making sense of the issues raised in this thre…
  • Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р

    Hrant, as someone who almost always disagrees with you but sometimes values your input, I hope you won't be offended if I point out that there's a steady decline in the quality of your disc…
  • Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р

    Very much earlier than that, I think. I don't recall seeing the rounded р in any 19th Century Russian text faces — which is not to say that they don't exist, only that the seriffed form see…
  • Re: Early forms of Cyrillic Р/р

    Yes, although it is possible that he was reacting to the rather ungainly form of the serif and to the descending uppercase. In the spacing tests of the new civil type, a more conventional Latin serif…
  • Re: Making Weights

    Much, much better. Glyph Tweaker allows you to control height, width, x-stem gain, and y-stem gain as independent values. I think Karsten made it, as the name suggests, with fairly minor adjustments …
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