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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 -
Re: Why are inflections bad?
In many situations, inflections create x,y curve extrema without nodes, so the recommendation against them was related to the recommendation to have nodes at extrema, which in turn was related to hin…6 -
Re: Usefulness of plugins & extensions & other tools.
Scaling yes, but it doesn't enable independent interpolation alongside the scaling. In UFOstretch, I can adjust stem weights in either direction independent of the height or width scaling, and c…4 -
Re: How to begin a commissioned font project?
Most of my clients tend to be fairly Unicode savvy because they're either in the tech sector or are publishers dealing with multiple scripts and languages, but you're totally right that thi…2
