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Re: History of ball terminals in serif typefaces
This observation isn't particular to ball terminals per se: whether using a broad tip tool or an expansive tool, when writing Latin letters one can more easily produce a greater variety of pleas…6 -
Re: While working on a typeface, how do you handle all those candidates for the same glyph?
I find that's not how I work. If I occasionally save a version of a glyph as .alt, I find that always indicates that I'm not satisfied with that approach, and I am unlikely to return to it.…11 -
Re: While working on a typeface, how do you handle all those candidates for the same glyph?
I force myself to make a decision.6 -
Re: Avoiding hyphenation of digraphs through opentype features
Hyphenation happens at the character processing and line-layout level, and there isn't much you can reliably do to influence it at the glyph processing level. You could try applying an 'rli…5 -
Re: Why are inflections bad?
Which isn't really possible in the case of variable fonts, because of course you need to keep the interpolation 'live'. [Probably a topic for another thread: I've had some interes…4
