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Re: Devanagari Critique
Yes, and other examples. These seem to me very different ways of constructing shapes, each imparting a particular character to the overall design if consistently applied. If the typeface uses two dif…1 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Relative proportion in typeface design is complex, because it is both broadly conventional and also particularly idiomatic (and historically also varied somewhat by country, e.g. following Garamond, …7 -
Re: Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
Hmm. Based on what you report, I would be worried that Windows might have an algorithm that treats 'Ultra' as a weight style name. That's just the sort of undocumented behaviour software developers l…4 -
Re: Pilcrow: A variable font creator
Well, to be fair, Google’s requirement is that there is a reproducible build process that doesn’t rely on commercially licensed software. Fontmake+UFO+DesignSpace is just how it shakes out most of th…1 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
What you seem to be describing is a model in which you can provide easy access to some variant uppercase letterforms by mapping them to the lowercase characters. I would say that is a very 1980s appr…2
