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Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Yes. Part of the value of fonts subsists in the rights associated with their use. Generally speaking, the more rights that a user obtains from a license, the more valuable the font (or, at least, the…3 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
The reason I release typefaces under OFL is because they are worth more money. One of the things I am writing this summer is an article about how to look at value in fonts and, in particular, free fo…3 -
Re: This is what Monotype is doing instead of anything helpful
https://www.fontexplorerx.com/fexpro4xspecial/ See also https://twitter.com/typeoff/status/15351729541323038721 -
Re: A new character?
Precomposed diacritic characters were encoded in Unicode simply for one-to-one compatibility mappings with pre-existing 7- and 8-bit encoding standards. Where no such standards existed, there is zero…4 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
This is an odd one. The terminology used in the glyph classification section of the GDEF table spec is indeed 1 Base glyph (single character, spacing glyph)2 Ligature glyph (multiple character, spaci…1
