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Re: Which typeface is better: Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk?
Which Helvetica? The Linotype/Adobe digital version inherited unitised widths, which meant that its sidebearings were wildly inconsistent. It also used the PS Type 1 slant function to produce the ‘It…5 -
Re: Glyph Sidebearings and Text Alignment
I can’t find the documentation that Apple provided for their implementation (which only addresses script-specific metrics, not language-specific ones). I originally proposed the idea to the OT ad hoc…1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
I don’t think RoyalT itself was cross-platform, and as I recall the first generation of Windows TrueType fonts were made on Macs (by four Monotype staff sent to work at Redmond). VTT was based on a p…3 -
Re: Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)
You should do the substitution in the opposite direction: make β the default beta, and then substitute ϐ when preceded by any letter. This is much more robust than using the /space glyph in the subst…3 -
Re: Programming font charset
You need to ask you client what kinds of programming they are doing, what the content of the programming is, and whether they are handling text strings within the code and, if so, in what natural lan…2
