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Re: When designing italics should a curve's side handles be 90º or slanted to the italic angle?
Having nodes at curve extrema helps renderers in a number of ways. It provides for accurate outline bounding box calculation regardless of the method used, whereas different renderers might produce d…7 -
Re: Hook styles on Ƙ Ƴ ƴ
In Brill, I made the hooks quite reserved, relying more on weight than size to distinguish from regular Y/y, and trying to incorporate them more naturally into the texture, and reflecing the handling…2 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
As far as I know, the last public information about this case was that JFP was appealing the decision. Has anyone heard anything else since then? In passing, I noticed on the Google Fonts site there …8 -
Re: Making JSTF better
JSTF is not a feature: it’s a separate font table, and it is not really supported in software. Simon is one of the few people who has actively experimented with it. The idea of JSTF is derived from t…5 -
Re: Panchanan - A project for digitalisation of first Bengali typeface created by Panchanan Karmakar
You are assuming a lot of things about the Wilkins type in these statements: that it is somehow more organically authentic than later Bangla types, and that it is based on Bangla handwriting. It is i…1
