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Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers
[Off topic: James, have you written to Barbara Jarzyna, the current ATypI executive director about this? If you explain the history, you might get a more positive response from her than you did in 20…4 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
Polygonal spacing remains a tantalising idea. The difficulty is coming up with the right polygons to achieve correct spacing between different glyphs: it's not really solving the problem if one uses …4 -
Re: Question from a (sort of) newbie
I start with the lowercase i, and then the l, and then the n, h and m. What I like about this is that it means I can concern myself with stem weight, terminal treatment, and vertical proportions befo…9 -
Re: Monospace font attributes
In monospaced fonts, all glyphs have to share the same advance width, including combining marks and other normally zero-width glyphs, and some software will enforce this by caching the advance width …1 -
Re: How to make small caps from Lj and Nj
There's no reason to do anything peculiar with these digraphs; indeed, they can legitimately be decomposed to L+j and N+j (they have compatibility decompositions in Unicode). The only reason these di…3
