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Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I enjoy kerning. It is one of the easier tasks in font making, and is the stage at which one really starts to see all the parts of a design coming together (this is why, despite my best earlier effor…5 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
Back in 2008, when work first began on the Brill types, there was a known issue with some third party PDF tools and viewers incorrectly assuming that all CFF-flavour OpenType fonts would have a 1000 …5 -
Re: Punctuation Space U+2008
I include an extensive set of space characters in most of our fonts, including the narrow non-breaking space U+202F. I set it to the same width as the thin space U+2009, i.e. about 0.125 of the em.4 -
Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
It is a choice how you think of your family and, hence, how you name the fonts, but personally I think of width variation as a higher level style grouping than weight because regular-to-bold weight m…3 -
Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
I’m unsure how to interpret that statement, and in the internal design units of the typeface you can set the axis scale however you want, but the wdth axis scale as specified in the OT spec indicates…3
