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Re: Basic characters for scientific publications
An open source variable UFO under the Apache 2.0 license with adjustable weight and proportion could be used to generate symbol glyphs that could be decently balanced with a variety of typeface style…2 -
Re: Basic characters for scientific publications
Different branches of science have different needs, so it is difficult to generalise, but I would say that a full set of Greek letters is advisable since these are used as symbols in a variety of sci…3 -
Re: Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications
Microsoft makes a distinction between core fonts and system fonts. Core fonts are things like Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, Segoe UI, and other fonts that are used, or have been used, as defau…1 -
Re: Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes
Option 2 is the usual method, and means that your optical size adjustments are relative to the em square height, which is what gets scaled to the nominal type size in an application. So when you incr…3 -
Re: Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications
We did production work on the version of Zapfino that ships with Mac OS, and the first release of that font was made—as requested by Apple—with the total overall height of the long extenders close to…7
