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Re: Fonts work in Fontlab8 Preview Window, but not in Indesign or Word
Check the character encodings and also the Unicode range bit settings in FontLab’s Font Info panel. MS Word uses a complicated font fallback algorithm that will sometimes ignore a font if it doesn’t …1 -
Re: Carson Old Face
I would put money on this being Caslon Old Face, which was released under that name the previous year, 1924. Caslon Old Face was a recutting and refitting of the original Caslon roman and italic, dis…1 -
Re: Printer recommendations for proofing?
My clients at Brill arranged for an extraordinary range of testing of the Brill types: all the paper stocks they typically use in their publications, different offset printers, and multiple print-on-…3 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
When we worked on monospace fonts for Microsoft, we were instructed to give the combining marks the standard mono width, and then to collapse that width to zero in GPOS. Some shaping engines will aut…3 -
Re: Authentic naive 17th century “grotesque” or postwar power tool disimprovement?
Something like 99% of inscribed Latin lettering chiseled in stone is done with a v-cut, because it is both efficient and visually attractive, but it isn’t the only method. One sometimes encounters, f…2
