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Re: How to access/ fix components order
Also note, with regard to component order, that it is good practice in the case of precomposed diacritics for the base letter to be the first component. This has implications for inherited metrics.2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q3
At some level, every font I make I make for myself. So I'll make them the way I think they should be made. That said, I'm also typically making fonts for specific clients, often with specif…1 -
Re: Units per em
Yes, that's right. The first version of Zapfino for Apple was very small on the body, in order to accommodate the very tall ascenders of the taller style variants. This was done in consultation …4 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
I don't have time to write as long a response here as I would like, but here are some thoughts: 1. When talking about colour in typography, it is important to distinguish between the use of mult…8 -
Re: Units per em
In the case of the Slabo fonts, I tailored the UPM to each target px size, so that I would have a number that was evenly divisible by the px number to give me a grid that fit to the UPM.5
