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Re: The Current State of Variable Fonts (End of 2018)
Given that the early adopters are mostly CSS developers, I expect variable font use to be mostly web-based, at least for the near future; certainly that's where I expect to see the more interesting s…7 -
Re: The differnce between rlig and liga
PS. You might find my Enabling Typography paper helpful. It includes a recommended breakdown of OTL features into processing blocks, and identifies the recommended state of each feature.2 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
Some of us were there. As I wrote earlier, I don't recall whether the term was used around the time that GX fonts were announced, but by the time OpenType arrived there was a need to distinguish betw…3 -
Re: Determine whether a font file is OpenType format or TrueType format
How one diagrams the relationships of the various sfnt font flavours depends on what aspect of those relationships one considers important. I tend to think in terms of outline format and glyph proces…2 -
Re: Arabic Unicode normalisation
A couple of things to note: 1. Fonts are not responsible for implementing any Unicode normalisation, and glyphs processing isn't bound by normalisation properties and behaviours. Normalisation is a c…2
