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Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
The CFF format had been developed independently of OpenType, initially for embedded fonts. It used subroutines as part of its compression, so didn’t need or benefit from the composites model of TrueT…2 -
Re: A fair compensation for adding Cyrillic set to other designer's typeface
Regarding pricing, you need to decide who will own what rights as part of the contracted work (and, yes, there should be a contract, even though you are friends—especially if you want to remain frien…8 -
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
Not sure exactly what you mean by ‘a text’s subtended angle’. My point is that there is a whole bunch of stuff about text and the reading of text that a type designer cannot know. A typographer knows…2 -
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
Claudio, it helps to remember that there are two different ways of grouping 'families' in OpenType: one way, corresponding to name table ID 1, groups into traditional 4-style families—Regul…4 -
Re: Units per em
The most recent issue I hit with a CFF OT font with a non-1000 UPM was six or seven years ago: non-Adobe PDF creation tools messing up spacing when embedding fonts. I've not see any similar issu…5
