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Re: Printer recommendations for proofing?
My clients at Brill arranged for an extraordinary range of testing of the Brill types: all the paper stocks they typically use in their publications, different offset printers, and multiple print-on-…3 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
When we worked on monospace fonts for Microsoft, we were instructed to give the combining marks the standard mono width, and then to collapse that width to zero in GPOS. Some shaping engines will aut…3 -
Re: Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
Something like 99% of inscribed Latin lettering chiseled in stone is done with a v-cut, because it is both efficient and visually attractive, but it isn’t the only method. One sometimes encounters, f…2 -
Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
Probably worth mentioning that disabling of these feature beyond a certain range of tracking is app-specific—notably in InDesign—and not part of a general OpenType Layout specification.2 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
Map the single lowercase ß to two smallcap S glyphs. There is no reason why the smallcap should be represented by a single SS glyph in all-caps or smallcaps. The standard German spelling rule—if the …3
