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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 -
Re: Tips on drawings?
[Off topic] Still? I thought brush derived terminals in Roman capitals was now generally accepted as the most convincing explanation.5 -
Re: Tips on drawings?
Use methods that build up letter shapes, rather than trying to draw outlines. For example, draw a skeletal structure, and then incrementally add weight to it to build up the modulated strokes. Or try…1 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
For the record: I do not have any kind of formal qualification or undertook any formal education in type design, nor do I have a background in graphic design. I came into the field via the antiquaria…6
