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Re: Open Font Format Layout Tag Registry
The dev3 and ory3 etc tags are non-standard. When Microsoft published the Universal Shaping Engine specification, there was some talk about defining new tags for scripts processed by existing Indic s…2 -
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
