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Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
Units per em defines the granularity of the design grid. All coordinates in outlines, spacing, kerning and mark positioning, and metrics are relative to the em, as expressed in the units per em scale…1 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
So, how should you proceed? I suggest these steps: 1) As suggested above (A), you probably want your typeface to be a similar scale to other types at the same nominal point size, so it is a good idea…2 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
When Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple in the early 1990s, they were not satisfied with the hhea table, so defined their own OS/2 table, as a general place to put a lot of data that Windows uses…2 -
On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
This morning, I received an email from Anagha Narayanan—currently a student at EsadType in Amiens—asking about vertical metrics settings in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font on which sh…3 -
Re: My text face wish list
Brill use U+27E8 and U+27E9 for the angle brackets. Dingbat codepoints are best avoided, since they may be emojified in some environments, i.e swapped out for the default emoji font on a system. U+23…3
