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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 -
Re: The Silcrow is currently my nemesis
I usually align the height optically with the bottom of the tail of the Q (and the J if it is descending), which is usually a bit less deep than the lowercase descenders. And the section sign and par…4 -
Re: Letter-fitting and spacing research
I tried, and got about halfway through the second page before I gave up. I flagged what I thought were a few missing cap-to-lowercase kerning pairs in the first page, but as I went on I found myself …3
