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Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
I would say the division, insofar as one can be said to exist, is at the level of the specific font format, i.e. the particular technology for which a typeface design is being engineered. That is the…4 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
I think implementing IFT for a font is going to be primarily a web developer responsibility. There are too many site-specific factors for a font foundry to be able to pre-build patches as part of the…2 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
The last of Kent’s examples occurs in the 1768 Rosart specimen too, but I had perhaps unfairly discounted it from this discussion since there is so much more going on in the design than just the medi…1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
If you mean obscuring them on the server side, possibly, although the first served subset contains the patch table with all the information necessary to grab the other parts.2 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Metrical equivalence is a technical workaround to text reflow in font fallback situations. Some of those font fallback situations have to do with licensing, i.e. to the unavailability in a particular…6
