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Re: [OTVar] Registered axes candidates
#grades Grades are a concept that came out of newspaper typesetting, and typically involve adjustments of a design intended to compensate for particular output environments — or even specific conditi…4 -
Re: Non-Latin-only font?
This may be a legacy-only issue now. Back in the late '90s, when Microsoft released the first versions of Mangal and other Indic fonts, these contained only the Indic Unicode characters for those scr…4 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
@"Ben Blom" The same thing I do now when customers ask me for things that I am not sure they really want or need: explain what they're asking for, and help them figure out if that's really …3 -
Re: [OTVar] Defining instances in the font vs. defining instances in CSS
@ybaggar What @"Rob McKaughan" wrote is correct insofar as if a font is built in a way that there is any interpolation space at all between instances, there is no way to prevent a user from…1 -
Re: Ascender & descenders in Latin type design
For traditional text faces, I use a simple rule: x-height + descender = cap height. Ascender height is basically stylistic, i.e. it can vary pretty freely depending on the style of type and the effec…6
