John Hudson

  • Re: Visible BOM

    I think SIL are overthinking this. It isn't necessarily the case the software encountering a VS character will display a .notdef glyph if the font doesn't contain a glyph (visible or otherw…
  • Re: Visible BOM

    Are you making fonts for scripts that have variation selector sequences specified by Unicode? If not, then there really isn't a good reason to include those characters in your fonts. If you are …
  • Re: FontLab VI Tutorials?

    FL7 is definitely better than VI, and I've mostly moved to a combination of FLS5 and FL7. [FLVI is still in use on a couple of projects, though, because of external dependencies.] If someone has…
  • Re: Contract/agreement for custom font work

    It's more like a magic fairy land where I spend up to two years helping a potential client to understand what they want/need before we even get to the contracting*, but when the contracting happ…
  • Re: New forum typeface

    Noto uses separate fonts for different scripts, so in order to get consistent Noto display I think you need to set up your CSS to specify Unicode ranges to use specific Noto webfonts.
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