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Re: Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?
As Tom notes, there are circumstances in which text content can be changed based on parsing of the glyph string, although this is less common than it used to be. I remember that, back in the early da…5 -
Re: Italic in variable fonts
I'd say as a general observation that the distinction between 'italic' and 'slanted' isn't a clean one for type designers, so I'm not surprised that the definition of the ital axis may be misundersto…2 -
Re: I finished another Art Nouveau Revival: WF Maria Theresia. Check it out!
In German display types, the umlaut dots are often nestled to the letter in some way, but this doesn't naturally extend to other accents or other languages.3 -
Re: Visible BOM
See Helmut's reply and examples. Apps like MS Word and Libre Office have an editing mode that displays formatting characters. To support this, Microsoft recommended having visible glyphs for e.g. Zer…3 -
Re: Visible BOM
Are you making fonts for scripts that have variation selector sequences specified by Unicode? If not, then there really isn't a good reason to include those characters in your fonts. If you are makin…3
