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Re: jalt feature in Arabic fonts: support and practical experiences?
There is no implementation specification for the jalt feature (or, indeed, for OpenType Layout in general), which means neither application nor font makers have clear guidance on how it might work. I…3 -
Re: About spaces
These are the widths I use for various Unicode space characters (presuming a 1000 UPM grid):U+2000 EN QUAD = 500U+2001 EM QUAD = 1000U+2002 EN SPACE = 500U+2003 EM SPACE = 1000U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPA…4 -
Re: How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics
Thanks, Dan. I was struggling to remember the name Breitkopf yesterday. I’ll go check Carter’s list: it will be interesting to see which, if any, of the weirder things might have originated there.I h…3 -
Re: How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics
A lot of the script and language materials in Fournier’s Manuel are essentially fantasies, in which a tradition dating back to the late Middle Ages that includes things like imaginary angelic scripts…4 -
Re: Mixfont Update - seeking a designer to help complete an AI-generated font
Erik van Blokland On generative AI: The whole blog post is worth reading.7
