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Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
Microsoft have this for European writing systems in the Segoe Print and Segoe Script types, which benefited greatly from native expert input on Cyrillic and Greek handwriting.4 -
Re: IPA ligature requirements
All the double-letter combining marks in Unicode are difficult to implement well. You need to plan for base letters of differing widths as well as differing heights, so need multiple contextual varia…3 -
Re: Which typeface is better: Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk?
Which Helvetica? The Linotype/Adobe digital version inherited unitised widths, which meant that its sidebearings were wildly inconsistent. It also used the PS Type 1 slant function to produce the ‘It…5 -
Re: Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment
I can’t find the documentation that Apple provided for their implementation (which only addresses script-specific metrics, not language-specific ones). I originally proposed the idea to the OT ad hoc…1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
I don’t think RoyalT itself was cross-platform, and as I recall the first generation of Windows TrueType fonts were made on Macs (by four Monotype staff sent to work at Redmond). VTT was based on a p…3
