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Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
I’m not aware of anything, but it seems like something that could usefully be added to Wakamai Fondue or another font examiner. It’s a bit of a puzzle, because it presumes a set of architectural feat…2 -
The Beneventan Memory
This week, I published a new/old article that has been almost twenty years in the making: The Beneventan Memory, a meditation on the way technological change filters our memories of past practices, i…5 -
Re: Glyphs Panel on Figma
This URL works: https://forum.figma.com/suggest-a-feature-11/glyphs-per-font-22915 Glyph panels are useful but need to be carefully implemented to maximise text interoperability. Inserting raw font g…2 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
The Patch Map Table is added when the font is prepped for Incremental Font Transfer, so this is a server side operation, prior to serving the first part of the font.* IFT has taken a really long time…6 -
Re: How much bigger do you like to make your x-height for Bold?
As with everything else in type design, this is properly considered relative to size. The larger the text, the less need for this kind of adjustment and, indeed, as you observed in logo work it may b…5
