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Re: Petite Caps, anyone?
Chris, as George says. Zuzana made petite caps for typefaces like Mrs Eaves that have small x-height relative to cap height. She wanted a form of smaller caps that harmonised well with the lowercase,…1 -
Re: Petite Caps, anyone?
No. The only features that get deprecated from the specification are ones that have some fundamental problem, e.g. they introduce confusability between encoded characters. Most of those were removed …3 -
Reducing CFF font size trick
I discovered this by chance yesterday: 1. Generate CFF OTF font from FontLab Studio (or try the font creation tool of your choice; I'd be interested to hear results of this trick on fonts made w…5 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
Dave, from a text processing perspective, Adam's TTC solution is definitely superior to PUA, because the background text remains clean Unicode. There are issues, though. One is the absence of cr…1 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Talk of the WRIT project research reminded me of this presentation, which I gave during the pre-conference tech sessions at TypeCon 2008. No commentary, just the slides: African Alphabets (2008)3
