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Re: What do you think about Fontself as of today in 2023?
Are you Windows based? Or Linux? If Windows based, you could consider FontCreator from High-Logic. It is commercial software, but very much cheaper than FontLab. The Home Edition is $49 and has all t…5 -
Re: Affinity 2.0
Adobe has avoided OS-reliance for font handling and text rendering for a long time. It is part of their policy of maintaining cross-platform feature compatibility in their software: they don’t want t…6 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I think Karsten’s point is that you don’t need to name the axis poles anything. In font development tools, you need to have labels for masters, but those names are arbitrary and not part of the namin…2 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Note that the STIX Two fonts support IPA, so there is a functional reason for the /fhook is straight up and coordinated with the other letters. These days, I lean towards that as a default approach a…2 -
Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
Here’s a suggestion for the size range preview: when the glyph is zero-width, as in the case of combining marks, please insert spaces between the glyphs in the preview, and before the first one so th…1
