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Re: Letterform Innovation?
Yes, the body text is a civilité style, and I chose it as an example of letterform innovation because the development of civilité typefaces based on the style seems to represent the last time that ty…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Historically, innovation in styles of text have tended to be driven by scribes rather than by type makers, simply due to the relative freedom and low cost of development that someone writing with a p…6 -
Re: Mark to Base on Ligatured glyphs
I use Microsoft’s VOLT tool for most of my OpenType Layout development, so I may not be able to provide direct advise on how to achieve this in other tools. One of the reasons I use VOLT is that a lo…1 -
Re: What is the standard practice for naming instances with multiple styles?
Instance naming is fairly flexible, but I would recommend thinking in terms of a hierarchy of family, subfamily, and style linking. For historical reasons, style linking applies in a fairly limited …5 -
Re: Hebrew composition in ccmp
1. Yes, this is fairly typical in Hebrew fonts. You can also rely on GPOS anchor positioning rules to place the dagesh dot within the letter, but in some cases, e.g. shin+dagesh in heavier typeface d…2
