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Re: Letterform Innovation?
Historically, innovation in styles of text have tended to be driven by scribes rather than by type makers, simply due to the relative freedom and low cost of development that someone writing with a p…6 -
Re: Hebrew composition in ccmp
You are not alone. I have met a number of people who assumed the way script and language tags are referenced in AFDKO feature code corresponded to the way the table data is structured.1 -
Re: What is the standard practice for naming instances with multiple styles?
Instance naming is fairly flexible, but I would recommend thinking in terms of a hierarchy of family, subfamily, and style linking. For historical reasons, style linking applies in a fairly limited …5 -
Re: Hebrew composition in ccmp
1. Yes, this is fairly typical in Hebrew fonts. You can also rely on GPOS anchor positioning rules to place the dagesh dot within the letter, but in some cases, e.g. shin+dagesh in heavier typeface d…2 -
Re: Tips on drawings?
[Off topic] Still? I thought brush derived terminals in Roman capitals was now generally accepted as the most convincing explanation.5
