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Re: Kerning Figures to Letters
OTL groups, including kerning classes, can be as big as you like, I think, and should not significantly affect processing speed. I just made some fonts with huge context groups, and they seem to beha…2 -
Re: Best practices for .null and .notdef?
NULL* should be zero-width with no contour *Name should be NULL not .null — .notdef should be the only glyph name in a font that begins with . The NULL glyph is not really needed in modern fonts, and…11 -
Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
@"Scott-Martin Kosofsky" I’ll try to find out what the original intent of the encoding was, but my suspicion is that no one know or remembers. The character was inherited into Unicode from …2 -
Re: Vertical Metrics/UPM - (modular) linespacing
InDesign does not use font metrics for linespacing. Linespacing in InDesign—and in general in design apps that come from a print-first background (unlike screen design tools like Figma)—is always exp…3 -
Re: Hoefler&Co sold to Monotype
I don’t think anyone is missing that point: rather, they are making the point that not all those—and numerous other options—are ethically equivalent, either in absolute terms or in the specific condi…16
