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Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Correct. The OS/2 v5 size fields were under-specified in that they did not provide for complex family mappings. They could have been made to work, with some name table additions, but STAT is a better…1 -
Re: Unimplement[ed,able] spots in the OpenType spec
Don’t forget ‘size’. Probably the most batshit conceptual feature.1 -
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: Type design hot takes
Nailed it, Dave. :D1 -
Re: Artificial Intelligence generated letters
The combination of improvements in AI learning and image processing is impressive, but fundamentally it is remixing of images that already exist and that the AI has learned to associate with text cue…11
