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Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
<calt> is discretionary in the sense that matters to Peter, in that it should have UI access in order to turn off the contextual alternates. This is how the feature was registered (what I class…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
I don't think in terms of imaginary tools — and as established many years ago on Typophile, I believe type design has always been, at most, para-chirographic —, but I am interested in how the normati…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Let me back up a moment, since I'm the one who introduced the term 'perceptual bias' into the conversation, to clarify what I meant by it. I wrote: In other words, what I am calling perceptual bias i…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Speaking of dogma. Hrant, I think you need to consider the possibility that the scribes who consciously developed particular ways of writing were intelligent people who understood some things about b…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Personally, at this weight, I would go for something between the 2nd and 3rd options, so maybe 76 on the vertical. But of the three presented, the third looks best. I think this kind of optical corre…5
