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Re: The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
This seems outrageous only if one assumes that this is a role replacement for the old, pre-iMac desktop machine. It's not. When the iMac was introduced, Apple split their desktop market, recogni…6 -
Re: .sc and .a glyph types
Adobe insist on a one-to-one mapping from characters to glyph variants that can be back-traced by parsing the glyph name. This means that they need to duplicate smallcap glyphs to distinguish those m…6 -
Re: Parametric vs Interpolated fonts
Decovar — like Amstelvar — is a proof of concept, showing what it is possible to do in the design space using a parametric approach. It exposes, as you have noted, limitations in the current OT varia…1 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
Correct. For what it's worth: in twenty years I have never bothered to implement the aalt feature in any fonts. It's a silly feature. Adobe thought they would need it in order to implement …4 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
That's my understanding too. It's the reason why I almost always explicitly program the lookups independently and then reference them in the feature code (on those few occasions when I'…2
