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Re: What is the current day difference between a typeface and a font?
Why is typeface silly but font fine? They are both terms from the technology of creating text using prefabricated characters. There is no record of either term applied to lettering prior to the devel…5 -
Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
@"John Savard" Please remember that a significant portion of IPA letters are also used in natural language orthographies. In the case of North American first nations languages, this involve…6 -
Re: Swapping Alternate and Default Form
You could also use TTX to dump the cmap table and remap the character codes to the glyphs you prefer.1 -
Re: Designing Phonetic Characters
It's acceptable, but I find a rotated c often tends to be less stable on the baseline, and will tend to have a slight optical tilt to the left, so needs some adjustment to make an overall fuller…3 -
Re: PUA encoding and pro users
I've spent the past twenty years advising against the use of PUA encodings for typographic variants on the basis that digital text is living text (unlike a printed page), that it persists and sh…7
