John Hudson

  • Re: Kerning Figures to Letters

    Hi Michael. That’s basically the approach I take, although I tend not to kern letters to numerals (because life is short, and the people who would care about such things are probably using software t…
  • Re: Kerning Figures to Letters

    OTL groups, including kerning classes, can be as big as you like, I think, and should not significantly affect processing speed. I just made some fonts with huge context groups, and they seem to beha…
  • Re: Greek all caps

    I am also very interested. A few years ago, when visiting a client, I looked through a book of reproductions of Greek typgraphy since its inception, and unfortunately I have not been able to locate a…
  • Re: Greek all caps

    If suppression of accents (and, properly, contextual insertion of dialytika in some instances) is handled at the character level, it is non-reversible without dictionary support (and not 100% reliabl…
  • Re: Best practices for .null and .notdef?

    NULL* should be zero-width with no contour *Name should be NULL not .null — .notdef should be the only glyph name in a font that begins with . The NULL glyph is not really needed in modern fonts, and…
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